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[-] SCB@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Thats just "under the concept of having any amount of people not be farmers"

People were paying for food long before capitalism existed.

[-] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It's capitalism vs government programs that can feed the starving, not capitalism vs anything else. That was an era before the modern state. We're talking about with today's systems, not with systems that are no longer relevant.

Also, self sustaining communities shared food with their own at numerous points in history. People were giving food to eachother for the common good long before Karl Marx.

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Capitalism n government programs coexist. They are not opposites

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[-] vertigo3pc@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Automation can conquer scarcity and reduce the amount of labor needed. People starve because we don't take steps to ensure our man-made economy doesnt suffer even a single dollar loss.

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Good King of the hill memes are like food in Soviet Russia: not everybody gets it

Except that's not really true. Western nations donate millions of tons of wheat and other food to poor nations and those hit by drought and other natural disasters.

https://www.wfpusa.org/articles/1-millionth-ton-american-wheat-relief-yemen/

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[-] MrShankles@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Under "-isms": "-isms" must manufacture "it" to justify their existence.

'There is a man, a certain man And for the poor, you may be sure That he'll do all he can Who is this one, who's favourite son

Just by his action has the traction Magnets on the run Who likes to smoke, enjoys a joke And wouldn't get a bit upset if he were really broke

With wealth and fame He's still the same I'll bet you five you're not alive If you don't know his name'

[-] Schlubbins@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It feels like most posts talking about "capitalism" are just talking about society as a whole.

Farmers don't work for free.

[-] jimbo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Farmers don't make any more money if people starve either. Turns out that we're not talking about the farmers.

[-] potopato@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

At least in my country (Europe), farmers receive very little money but food is getting more expensive. Is the great chains of supermarkets that profits in that difference, so it's definitely a capitalism problem.

Even the CEO of the biggest supermarket here recognized that they had rise the prices to make more profit even when they didn't need to do it.

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