Yeah, just send some food to a place that doesn’t have enough. Simple enough.
Except doing that puts the local agriculture out of business. No one buys food when someone’s giving it away, right? I suppose you can just continue sending food to that country that’s now completely dependent on your country. Good plan. That is if your plan is to establish a colonial empire with client states completely dependent on yours.
How about a socialist revolution? Nobody has ever died in a famine in a socialist country! Oh… wait.
Nah the best strat involves subsidizing the local agriculture industry, expanding it while temporarily providing just enough food to top up to area with the needed calories to prevent people from starving. Once the local agriculture industry has expanded, you’ve succeeded in the whole “teach a man how to fish rather than giving a man a fish” thing.
So you have to send tractors, develop irrigation, maybe send some GMO seeds that have higher crop yields if you’re more concerned about people starving than first world moral objections.
You lack imagination and swallow the pill handed to you. Maybe the economic theory is just bullshit thought to you by the people who benefit most from said theory.
If current systems of imperial hegemony were dismantled, then all regions would become more resilient, through greater food independence, and food producers could become more prosperous.
It is confounding how, through reading the post, you became determined to object over someone’s “plan is to establish a colonial empire with client states completely dependent on yours”.
Yeah, just send some food to a place that doesn’t have enough. Simple enough.
Except doing that puts the local agriculture out of business. No one buys food when someone’s giving it away, right? I suppose you can just continue sending food to that country that’s now completely dependent on your country. Good plan. That is if your plan is to establish a colonial empire with client states completely dependent on yours.
How about a socialist revolution? Nobody has ever died in a famine in a socialist country! Oh… wait.
Nah the best strat involves subsidizing the local agriculture industry, expanding it while temporarily providing just enough food to top up to area with the needed calories to prevent people from starving. Once the local agriculture industry has expanded, you’ve succeeded in the whole “teach a man how to fish rather than giving a man a fish” thing.
So you have to send tractors, develop irrigation, maybe send some GMO seeds that have higher crop yields if you’re more concerned about people starving than first world moral objections.
But yeah, let’s just feed people.
You lack imagination and swallow the pill handed to you. Maybe the economic theory is just bullshit thought to you by the people who benefit most from said theory.
Give credit where it’s due.
Great imagination certainly was required to speculate the “plan is to establish a colonial empire”.
If current systems of imperial hegemony were dismantled, then all regions would become more resilient, through greater food independence, and food producers could become more prosperous.
It is confounding how, through reading the post, you became determined to object over someone’s “plan is to establish a colonial empire with client states completely dependent on yours”.