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The US is Politically to the Right of [Other] Democracies (lemmy.world)
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[–] xenoclast@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

We've made farming a capitalist system. It only functions if there's scarcity. A farmer can't feed their family or farm their fields without paying bribes to machine companies.

And politicians vilify "subsidies" to farmers. Our society should be "funding" food production as a basic human right. It would take about 1% of the US military budget to completely socialize food production and feed everyone. It's disgusting.

I don't think capitalism is inherently evil. Just the people in control of the wealth.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Even worse, we have been producing, and throwing away, so much food that the US by itself could feed the entire world a couple times over. We don't need to spend more money to fix food production and healthcare, we need to spend less.

[–] xenoclast@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah. This is wild. I bet it's very similar to solar or wind power production. The places where it's cheap to produce, doesn't have a lot of need. The places where it's needed, it's difficult to get.

There's probably a lot of logistical problems that need solving.. but that's easy stuff. Humans can catch fish in the north sea, send it to Malaysia to be cut and frozen and boxed, to be sold to a person in England within a few days...

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Once anyone understands this , nothing else politically matters. There is no left or right. There is no tankie or liberal.

There is only rich.. and poor.

[–] volodya_ilich@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

There is no left or right

There is only rich and poor

So you're left?

[–] xenoclast@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Feel like you didn't understand the message

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I’m not rich 🤑