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The Benefits of World Hunger (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The article is actually decently well written good-faith satire meant to address how poverty and hunger are inherent to capitalism as a system. The title was just too bold lol

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 2 months ago (4 children)

hunger is "fundamental to the working of the world's economy"

I mean, he's probably right, but that means we should work to change the system, not throw more orphans into the crushing machine

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

But the machine needs those orphans to keep going! Why would we want to deprive the system of what it needs? Won't anybody think of the shareholders!?!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Which is actually said in the original article

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

there's no "but" -- this is exactly the point the author is making.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Won't anybody think of the employees in the orphan crushing industry?