@FredKiesche @garethlpowell I’ve been trying to hammer Gareth’s point #2 into people’s heads for year's. People say ”the US can't feed the world”, but in point of fact we COULD. We just don’t have the will to do so. Hell, we could feed the world on the perfectly good food we throw away!
@FredKiesche @garethlpowell Modern agriculture is so good we have to pay people NOT to grow food. This isn’t to benefit the individual family farm. It is meant to assure the huge corporate farms make insane profits by creating artificial shortages.
@FredKiesche @garethlpowell Hunger is engineered to make the wealthy wealthier. Homelessness is engineered as well. Modern materials & construction techniques could cheaply house all of the homeless. But antiquated building codes are designed to keep these techniques from being used.
@FredKiesche @garethlpowell Education is similarly hamstrung, as is free communication and expression. Universal broadband access linked to dirt-cheap tablet computers is there whenever we want it. It isn’t that we don’t have the tech. But big telecom wouldn’t be able to make grotesque profits on it.
@FredKiesche @garethlpowell There is NO REASON for poverty. None. We can eliminate it world-wide ANY TIME WE CHOOSE. We just have to be willing to allow EVERYONE to share in our expanded productivity. But we won’t because a few would not be able to accumulate massive wealth.
@FredKiesche @garethlpowell And why do the ultra-wealthy POSSIBLY need such enormous amounts of wealth? No limit of luxury can put a scratch on such fortunes. They spend most of it to defend their ability to deny a piece of the world’s wealth to others.
@FredKiesche @garethlpowell The ultra-rich spend massive amounts to buy political influence and personal power so that they can continue to accumulate more wealth than they can possibly expend otherwise. Why? Not to make their lives & their children’s lives better.
@FredKiesche @garethlpowell It is not enough to have more than you can possibly need or want. What good is it to have everything if everyone else does, too? There is no shortage. Shortages are created by converting increased productivity of many into a form that can be hoarded by a few.
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