Huh. I was hoping for a breakdown of where that famine is happening, or where the WFP gets their numbers from.
Last time I received a list of all the major famines happening “under capitalism” in one of these debates, I was able to point to government interference with the free market in every single case.
I’m sorry I don’t have the sources to back this up, but as far as I can tell famine happens when the government either forcibly destroys farms with bombs, or puts a blockade on food, or puts up a rule saying you can’t sell food, or puts a price cap on food, or distributes free food for a little while destroying the farmers’ incomes.
If I remember I’ll try to find a list of specific famines happening in the world today. I think you will find that the “failures of the market” are actually times the market got shut down by the local government.
Huh. I was hoping for a breakdown of where that famine is happening, or where the WFP gets their numbers from.
Last time I received a list of all the major famines happening “under capitalism” in one of these debates, I was able to point to government interference with the free market in every single case.
I’m sorry I don’t have the sources to back this up, but as far as I can tell famine happens when the government either forcibly destroys farms with bombs, or puts a blockade on food, or puts up a rule saying you can’t sell food, or puts a price cap on food, or distributes free food for a little while destroying the farmers’ incomes.
If I remember I’ll try to find a list of specific famines happening in the world today. I think you will find that the “failures of the market” are actually times the market got shut down by the local government.
Governments interfering under capitalism is still capitalism. Dimwit.