Imagine If Dollar Signs Didn't Own So Many Minds

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[–]magnora7 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Because some jerk would take all the food and then sell it to make money. Having food everywhere just means someone will gather it all up and resell it for profit, unless such a thing is explicitly disallowed.

[–]Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Now think about this... when a manufactured economic crisis happens it causes more starvation, more homelessness, etc. in order to fix this, the government imposes the "sacrifice quota" where producers destroy their produce and surplus, sorely needed by those starving children. They destroy this so they do not go bankrupt and also so they raise prices.

[–]Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I disagree. There's food everywhere on the side of the road. Pawpaws, apples, wild plums and pears. Nobody picks it because they like burger king.

[–]EndlessSunflowers[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Profit And Greed Are Destroying Everything Good.

[–]Druullus 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

What's wrong with profit, isn't it just efficient use of resources?

What about 8 billion people who are not greedy?

[–]Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Agreed.

[–]noice 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Tragedy of the commons prevents this.

[–]Cass 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Some time ago I went to a friend to pay some bills and in front of the building we had to go in there were pots with nice flowers in them. When we finished and went out she started picking the flowers from the pots. I was like "wtf are you doing?" and she looked at me like I was crazy and said "what, I'm not stealing the pots, I'm not hiding while doing this, I'm honest." She actually used the word "honest".

[–]Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Way to use a red-herring.