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I'm not sure if it's what you are implying , but would you really be comfortable allowing people to starve if the value of their labor drops below that required
by jiggy2011 12y ago
I'm not sure if it's what you are implying , but would you really be comfortable allowing people to starve if the value of their labor drops below that required to sustain them?
- seanmcdirmid 12y agoThe correct question to ask is what happens to these people when they have nothing to lose AND have access to guns. We ony have to look a bit south of our border for those answers.
- grondilu 12y agoMost people walk by homeless, possibly starving people everyday and they do sleep at night. It's a lack of empathy that everyone basically has.
- jiggy2011 12y agoWe have government programs to feed and shelter the homeless, but how well can those scale?
- zo1 12y agoWe're no where near that point where the value of their labor is less than what is required for them to feed themselves, and yet millions of people a year go to sleep hungry, or die of starvation, have their growth stunted, etc. I am totally not comfortable allowing people to starve. That is why I pay taxes, and I expect them to be fed using that money. And I am downright pissed-off that it's still an issue. I don't think it's capitalism that you should be directing any undue criticism over "value of labor" when it's currently government that is the cause#1 of hunger/starvation. #1: They're the cause because they're not fixing it.
- jiggy2011 12y agoVery few people starve to death in first world countries, at the same time however there are millions of people who are completely unemployed and would likely be unhoused and without food if it were not for gov welfare programs.