2y ago

UN says it's forced to cut food aid to millions globally because of a funding crisis

www.independent.co.uk

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If only there were a few individuals with ridiculous amounts of wealth that we could turn to (whether they want to or not)
- How do you imagine that should work? Let's take Elon as an example. He owns companies that got successful, hence the wealth. It is not cash under his mattress or in the back account, that would be simple to take.
  
  Well surely cutting the corporate income tax rate is the best first step, no?
  Oh, wait, that didn't help it just made millionaires into billionaires? Who could have imagined!?!?
  
  Obviously one can tax the companies and they can collect money from revenues or collect money by selling shares to investors.
He said they only need $20 billion to feed everyone .... well fuck that daddy bezos want to go to space!
- 20 billion dollar per year? To feed everyone (who is that?) for a year? Wound that be sustainable or would populations explode?
  
  40 billion each year to end global hunger by 2030. Everyone is everyone in the whole world. These figures are from the Un food programme's. Population would not explode, because malthusian economics are for eco fascists. Rich people that have no food insecurity have Less kids, not more. See all of Europe and the US and many other countries as examples. Human population is not the graph about wolves and deer you saw in 10th grade biology.
  https://www.wfpusa.org/articles/how-much-would-it-cost-to-end-world-hunger/
  
  Hm no you're right, better to let millions starve
  Money is imaginary
Is it just because of a funding crisis, or is it also because of rising prices partly due to sheer profiteering?
- It's all connected. Countries want to donate less. Supply is smaller, not in small part thanks to Russia's slaughter of Ukraine. The energy crisis that prompted costs rising, again, Russia. Greedy corporations increasing their slices of the pie at record rates at our time of need. Crops increasingly being lost due to the effects of the climate crisis.
  Not an exhaustive list, just what comes to mind at this moment.
  These problems are still workable but not with the current greed and zero-sum mindsets we get from our own population (e.g. the right in many countries letting out their fascism).
  While we argue and fight, millions starve. It's not just a possible outcome, it's already happening. People who refuse to acknowledge the climate crisis, people who support Russia, greedy corporations, etc. Their hands probably haven't been as bloody since the colonial times.
- Not going to research this but I reckon that we done fucked ourselves with capitalism.
  Market failures are only for the people to absorb. The profits though…

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