The Benefits of World Hunger

[Rainik Stormseeker]

Thoughts? UN article pulled from the site on 7/6/22; ty wayback machine.

The Benefits of World Hunger

"We sometimes talk about hunger in the world as if it were a scourge that all of us want to see abolished, viewing it as comparable with the plague or aids. But that naïve view prevents us from coming to grips with what causes and sustains hunger. Hunger has great positive value to many people. Indeed, it is fundamental to the working of the world's economy. Hungry people are the most productive people, especially where there is a need for manual labour.

We in developed countries sometimes see poor people by the roadside holding up signs saying "Will Work for Food". Actually, most people work for food. It is mainly because people need food to survive that they work so hard either in producing food for themselves in subsistence-level production, or by selling their services to others in exchange for money. How many of us would sell our services if it were not for the threat of hunger?
More importantly, how many of us would sell our services so cheaply if it were not for the threat of hunger? When we sell our services cheaply, we enrich others, those who own the factories, the machines and the lands, and ultimately own the people who work for them. For those who depend on the availability of cheap labour, hunger is the foundation of their wealth.

The conventional thinking is that hunger is caused by low-paying jobs. For example, an article reports on "Brazil's ethanol slaves: 200,000 migrant sugar cutters who prop up renewable energy boom".1 While it is true that hunger is caused by low-paying jobs, we need to understand that hunger at the same time causes low-paying jobs to be created. Who would have established massive biofuel production operations in Brazil if they did not know there were thousands of hungry people desperate enough to take the awful jobs they would offer? 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 literature 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. Yes, people who are well nourished have greater capacity for productive physical activity, but well-nourished people are far less willing to do that work.

The non-governmental organization Free the Slaves defines slaves as people who are not allowed to walk away from their jobs. It estimates that there are about 27 million slaves in the world,2 including those who are literally locked into workrooms and held as bonded labourers in South Asia. However, they do not include people who might be described as slaves to hunger, that is, those who are free to walk away from their jobs but have nothing better to go to. Maybe most people who work are slaves to hunger?

For those of us at the high end of the social ladder, ending hunger globally would be a disaster. If there were no hunger in the world, who would plow the fields? Who would harvest our vegetables? Who would work in the rendering plants? Who would clean our toilets? We would have to produce our own food and clean our own toilets. No wonder people at the high end are not rushing to solve the hunger problem. For many of us, hunger is not a problem, but an asset."

Notes 1 Tom Phillipps, "Brazil's ethanol slaves: 200,000 migrant sugar cutters who prop up renewable energy boom". The Guardian. Online, 9 March 2007.
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/en...030144,00.html
2 Free the Slaves. Online, 2007. http://www.freetheslaves.net/

[Jibartik]

The Benefits of World Hunger

White: Covid
Red: Russia
Black: Famine

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[GinnasP99]

And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.

And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

-Revelation 6:5-6

[Duik]

Sheep.
Follow the leader.
Learn about cheap labour making item A.
Buy item A at an amazingly low price and tell your friends. Just not the bit about the imbalance in the equation, namely The main fucking reason why the item cheap is cuz there are too many lazy amoral cunts who want cheap shit.
Not the emergence of the few million/billionaire cunts encouraging us.
But you smart, large brained peeps here already knew this.

[loramin]

Hey guys, I have a new contrarian edgelord opinion to share: people dying of starvation is good!

Aren't I cool for having such an edgy opinion that's contrary to the mainstream?

[robayon]

hello i didn't read the article and will not but the thread of violence, starvation, homelessness is literally a necessary part of our greedy and violent way of life

if the threat of these things didn't exist why would people work shit jobs at all?

anyways, takes like this are sociopathic and anyone who publishes them should be forced to do a few years of work in the jobs they're referring to.

[Reiwa]

The fair trade self-martyrdom must end.

[Jibartik]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Hey guys, I have a new contrarian edgelord opinion to share: people dying of starvation is good!

Aren't I cool for having such an edgy opinion that's contrary to the mainstream?

You do realize that like we’re jokingly agreeing with the far left UN saying that it’s good?

[Jibartik]

Originally Posted by robayon [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

if the threat of these things didn't exist why would people work shit jobs at all?

I agree with you but what if instead of something so mortal, two immortal interdimensional beings have a discussion about whether a universe with entropy would work or not.

One says the people in it will feel emotion and that will invent JOY! The other says they will feel only pain.

Then they make a bet to see which one can collect the most souls that agree with them.

[Reiwa]

Originally Posted by Jibartik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I agree with you but what if instead of something so mortal, two immortal interdimensional beings have a discussion about whether a universe with entropy would work or not.

One says the people in it will feel emotion and that will invent JOY! The other says they will feel only pain.

Then they make a bet to see which one can collect the most souls that agree with them.

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