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The Benefits of World Hunger (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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] 14 points 1 month ago (13 children)

The text is only fucked the the way that The Onion sticks are fucked: this is only labeled satire because of the tone of the article. The content is as true as "real" news.

The actual "fucked" content is that the author was correct, and that the wealthy benefit from hunger and the threat of starvation to maintain access to abundant cheap labour.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 1 month ago (12 children)

It's fucked that the author appears to support such an arrangement...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Stop it. Stop being so bad at understanding writing. This is literally just someone doing A Modest Proposal again but with an economic lens.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is just a bad thing to say to someone. That's all.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"please demonstrate that you have any reading comprehension skills whatsoever"

"please stop being so mean to me"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Who would build any sort of factory if they did not know that many people would be available to take the jobs at low-pay rates

Much of the hunger lirerarure talks about how it is important to assure that people are well fed so that they can be more productive. That is nonsense

No one works harder than hungry people.

[...]well-nourished people are far less willing to do that work

For those of us at rhe high end of the social ladder, ending hunger globally would be a disaster.

I guess the irony is lost on me. Nothing here indicates that it's wrong or should change. Also, you're a huge asshole.

Edit: in fact I know people (conservatives) who are totally fine with this arrangement. They are huge assholes too, huh isn't that weird.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

yes. the irony is lost on you. it is... called satire. the author is making fun of the ridiculous state of the world by describing it as though it were normal, thus provoking outrage in the reader upon realizing that it is not.

also i'm not the person you replied to. and even if that person was an asshole, being an asshole would not make them a conservative.

you are just on a roll today, aren't you?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I think "describing it as if it were normal" only helps the people who support this arrangement because it gets normalized. That's where the accusation of conservatism came from, that and the way they tried to shut me down with insults.

Edit: given that there are likely to be a lot of people that agree with this argument unironically, doesn't it seem irresponsible to play some game where you pretend like you support it? Without ever coming out against it at the end?

Really, it's just naked approval, with any disapproval left as an exercise to be performed by the reader.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do you talk this way about The Onion too?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I find articles on the onion to be funny in some way. This was just naked approval of the status quo.