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crazy idea, let's just feed people
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Dangit bobbuh
Aren't you forgetting the whole supply and demand thing...
Right, that's why diamonds are so expensive! No, wait, that shit is actually worthless and only exploded in value because a few rich fuckers CREATED the PERCEPTION of scarcity.
Supply and demand is a fucking fairy tale told by rightwing scum to manipulate public discourse. It requires a world of absolute and perfect knowledge to function, which, unsurprisingly, doesn't apply.
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Yeah, just send some food to a place that doesn't have enough. Simple enough.
Except doing that puts the local agriculture out of business. No one buys food when someone's giving it away, right? I suppose you can just continue sending food to that country that's now completely dependent on your country. Good plan. That is if your plan is to establish a colonial empire with client states completely dependent on yours.
How about a socialist revolution? Nobody has ever died in a famine in a socialist country! Oh... wait.
Nah the best strat involves subsidizing the local agriculture industry, expanding it while temporarily providing just enough food to top up to area with the needed calories to prevent people from starving. Once the local agriculture industry has expanded, you've succeeded in the whole "teach a man how to fish rather than giving a man a fish" thing.
So you have to send tractors, develop irrigation, maybe send some GMO seeds that have higher crop yields if you're more concerned about people starving than first world moral objections.
But yeah, let's just feed people.
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