The Indian rice export ban, the war in Ukraine and El Niño are combining to create a “doom loop” for the world’s poorest people, as staple food prices soar.

  • Spzi
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    251 year ago

    It’s culling the wrong demographic. Removing poor people is the least efficient. Removing the poorest will have the least effect possible.

    These comments always make me wonder wether it’s a lack of education, bad taste or racism.

      • Spzi
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        41 year ago

        Yes, I read it before. No, it didn’t change much. Where’s the joke, what’s funny about this?

        On the other hand, too many people write these comments seriously, which is enough reason to counter them.

        It’s downplaying the climate crisis and normalizing racism. You can insist it was done in a lighthearted way, but that’s not so relevant.

    • @Aux
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      -101 year ago

      No one needs poor.

      • Spzi
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        71 year ago

        Except the people who prefer to pay less for their goods and services. They depend on people willing / forced to work for very little; they need the poor.

        Also this is not a business where you could hire and fire people based on what is ‘needed’, and you’re not the boss.

        These are humans with exactly the same right to food as you.

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          -81 year ago

          They are nothing but numbers in a spreadsheet.