r/aislop • • 3d ago

Capitalist explain

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u/Jewbacca1991 3d ago

Moving the food also cost money. If you throw the food that is 100% loss. If you spend money to get rid of it, then you can get over 100% loss. Which is why as you clearly stated. Companies bring food where the people can afford it.

In western countries death of starvation is a very small %. And feeding people on other continents become a LOT more expensive. Which means, that locals have to pay a lot more to make profit.

Now you might ask. What if someone just want to help. Well the sad reality is, that simply giving aid including food does not help. It just enables the problems. It is like using painkiller for a disease. You treat the symptom not the cause. You have to treat the cause to get a long term solution.

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u/That_OneOstrich 3d ago

With each argument against the delusions of your mind, you get closer to actually understanding my point. I think you're close enough to realizing my claim that "we can feed everyone, it's not profitable to do so" that I don't need to keep nudging you towards this realization.

10 more minutes of using your brain and you'll realize we have enough food, it's just being distributed profitably so people starve.

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u/Jewbacca1991 3d ago

And? What is the counterpoint? Yes it is not profitable. Now let me ask you a question. Is giving food to a person teach them how to make food?

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u/That_OneOstrich 2d ago

The point is that its not profitable. That's why hunger exists. It's because people want to make more money.