Remember the countries that voted in the UN against food being a human right ? The USA and Israel.
Genocidal zio kids grow up starving people.
Yeah these two would vote against air being a human right.
No we obviously built agriculture so we could have futures trading
Food should not be a commodity
Would you prefer it was a luxury?
The shareholders disagree. And their opinion is the only one that matters
What is the point of automation and mass production when the prices of certain basic staples keeps going up? You are really going to tell me we can't get a loaf of bread down to 1 dollar?
What is the point of automation and mass production when the prices of certain basic staples keeps going up?
Horizontal Integration Explained
Companies pursue horizontal integration for synergies like economies of scale or cost savings in marketing, R&D, production, and distribution. This can make manufacturing multiple products more cost-effective. Tiers of sale under a single distributor (economy and generic versus luxury or specialty) also afford the corporate entity to scale price to income and maximize revenue per customer.
The "organic" label is a good example of this in practice. Add a 50% mark-up on bananas by telling people the "regular" bananas are unsafe. Anyone who can't tolerate the professed risk (typically people with more disposable income) end up paying extra to the same distributor for what is functionally the same product sold at a premium price.
Automation and Mass Production are tools of monopolization in the capitalist economic model. The efficiencies of production are used to lock competitors out of the market, not to improve the consumer-experienced efficiency of production, distribution, or sale.
When we can't feed everyone, that's weakness, and it is sad.
When its a choice, that's power, and its fun!
50s Prediction: In the future, robots will do menial tasks so you can focus on arts, family and science!
Actuality: You lost you job as an artist to AI. Enjoy a lifetime of debt and poverty. Maybe you can find some menial way to sustain yourself just enough to barely live.
For profit. Who cares about people?
It already is, dumbass.
Note: It's a right in the sense of "it should be available to buy", but not "you can get it for free"-kind-of-right.
Uhh it starts with I can't believe anyone would think implying there are a lot of people who don't think it is a right. Your or the UN's declaration that it is right means nothing if people don't agree to it. Besides, the devil is always in the details.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/09/united-nations-right-to-food-us-hunger
A right can be positive or negative. Saying you have the right to buy food without money is pointless. A positive right would mean someone would need to provide you that food if you can't afford it. What type of right and is it provided if needed is the crux of the issue.
And if you go back to the original community structure it was the family or tribe - where the whole point was group survival, not luxury for a few while the majority scraped by.
Kill the rich, save the poor. Taxation, is not enough for the current era. There must be justice for the crimes committed. Once they are dead, then we can figure out how to run the world without capitalism. Untill then, the elimination of the ultra-rich by any means should be the goal. Everything else is noise.
We've done this. The people in charge of the killing are the new kings.
Not saying it'll yield a worse situation, tho.
To make more food to stockpile and force people to buy or watch rot you silly billy!
Seriously though. Its one thing to want to sell the food, I get that people gotta get paid, but the fact that in a lot of places we just throw away the unsold food to rot in the rubbish is ridiculous!
Like seriously, we're just gonna throw away this food rather than even attempt to give it to those in need, and fire anybody who tries, cause it might slightly eat into profits?? That's just psychopathic levels of corporate apathy.
There are places where the trash bins of supermarkets are locked so homeless people can't take thrown away food from them
The excess is also insane. When people can't afford or won't afford the high beef prices, will the corporations who make it produce less or take it to market to be used in more sustainable products? As a society we've moved to not just make sure enough food is available but that everyone has an opportunity to purchase anything they might want. With fresh foods that means guaranteed waste, which means higher prices to make up for that waste.
My great grandparents ran a grocery store in a very small town. My grandfather ran a butcher counter that he got regular deliveries for and everyone in town knew the schedule, once the meat was gone, that was it until the next delivery. They grew produce in the summer and always canned any excess. There was always enough food for everyone who cared to buy it, but there wasn't so much that everyone could get everything at any time.
Food, water, housing.
HEALTHCARE and medication.
+Healthcare
+Education
Food, shelter and warmth are the only things we need. And we have more than enough for every single person on earth. Boy oh boy did we ever reveal our shortcomings as a race. Even barn rats look out for each other.
Water.
It was implied with food but you are correct.
Yeah and water might soon become the one thing we don't have enough of
Who is "we"? What "race"?
No thanks on this vague distraction from the actual blame.
We? Fucking humans. Earthlings. God the divisiveness has eaten deep into your brain.
The human race, I presume. Even though humanity isn't a race. English is so fucked up.
You are correct. I want everyone to have everything (or at least the opportunity).
Liberals absolutely loath the hungry and starve people for entertainment. They hate the fact that anarchists adore their comrades and feed ourselves for solidarity.
Tell a liberal to open a canteen, and see how they send cops to destroy free food caravan.
Housing, healthcare, clean water and food security are all human fuxking rights
We were forced to build it by people with ambitions for power who were willing to kill, torture and starve us into compliance. Our civilizations are all descended from slaver societies.
Capitalism can not exist without the violent deprivation of basic human needs.
Fr, where do people think their clothes come from?
So the issue is: we industrialized because we wanted to sell more food while paying less people for working. Not because we wanted to make the world a better place.
Industrialization and AI are actually very similar. Both were pushed by rich people who wanted to pay less for producing more.
And just like industrialization, push to use AI is lowering quality of everything. Because quality things cannot be mass-produced.
Quality things can be mass-produced but you don't have to renew them as often and you quickly reach saturation of the market and thus your sales plumet.
So they prefer enshittification and planned obsolescence...
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