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Cake day: April 27th, 2024
  • smiletolerantly@awful.systemstoNews@lemmy.world•CEOs struggle to process their new reality after the public glee at Brian Thompson’s killing
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    6 days ago

    And then the warlords steal the food and redistribute it as they see fit.

    No, you are willfully misunderstanding my point.

    There are still places in the world where slavery is legal, for fuck’s sake. Do you really, truly think things like this could still be true in 2024 if money and what/who you can buy/hire were actually the solution?

    Absolutely.

    Throwing money at solving the surface layer issues / symptoms is moot, but yes, for every new layer of problem you uncover you can ask “so what are the causes for that” until you reach something that can be fixed wit money.

    Og, and I do not believe that this has anything to do with world peace. The nations on earth without hunger problems aren’t peaceful utopias either, after all. But on the other hand, hunger does seem to cause a lot of instability…

  • smiletolerantly@awful.systemstoNews@lemmy.world•CEOs struggle to process their new reality after the public glee at Brian Thompson’s killing
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    7 days ago

    You can’t just throw money at the problem and expect it to just be solved. There are real underlying societal and infrastructure issues in a lot of impoverished countries that need to be solved in order for hunger to be solved. You could ship a billion tons of food to a single starving region and there would still be millions of starving people.

    That’s a strawman. No-one said “they should just, like, buy enough food to feed the hungry”.

    When people say it would cost x to solve world hunger, they are talking about those “underlying societal and infrastructure issues”.

    So, yes. Everything can be solved with money. You can hire people to “fundamentally understand local political dynamics”, invest in research, pay to fund the programs that will enable impoverished regions to develop the means to build the infrastructure to feed themselves.

    Additionally, simply handing out food would kill the domestic food industry (because who would buy food when billionaires are giving it away for free) and would make the country even more problematic.

    Just because this is the idea you have in mind for how to solve hunger, and it is, as you rightly stated, a fucking stupid idea, doesn’t make it the only idea.