Socialism vs Capitalism

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[–]Canbot 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Who can't afford food? Why does this shit keep getting repeated over and over? Capitalist societies have the highest level of income for the average person of any other system. It is ass backwards to claim that under capitalism people can't afford food, or anything for that matter.

[–]FreedomUltd 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

There are many people in the USA who are too poor to eat properly. Stop pretending there are not.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Processed food costs a lot more than fruit and veg or even good unprocessed meat. Takeaway food costs even more. When I've seen people on welfare eat the problem isn't the cost of food is that they don't know how to cook or they want to by the brands they see advertised everyday.

And American food is much, much cheaper than anything we have in Europe yet you have more people in food poverty. Capitalism isn't making food more expensive, there's no evidence for that, and price isn't even the problem in the first place.

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

Processed foods do tend to be less expensive than most fresh foods. In part, they're that cheap because the U.S. government subsidizes the producers of corn and wheat, the main ingredients in those packaged snacks, which helps keep crop prices low. In addition, lean meats and fish, as well as fresh fruits and vegetables, are highly perishable items, and there's a cost involved in delivering them unsullied to your table or cafeteria tray.

https://www.sharecare.com/health/eating-and-society/why-processed-foods-cheaper-fresh