alt Hacker NewsThere are truckloads of perfectly good food and clothes being incinerated every day since that's somehow cheaper for the owners of capital. The excess is there. It's just not ending up in the pockets of those who need it.
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germandiago • today at 1:36 AM
Oh, and you think everyone will continue prpducing all the things you need for you to use them forever withiut contributing anything back to anyone?
Then get ready to be a slave, bc noone, absolutely noone gives things for free, which is, in my view, reasonable.
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Food and clothing are actually an argument against you here. Sure we waste a lot of both, and yet food insecurity is rare in the First World, and lack of clothing is pretty much the least significant part of poverty. Plus, government-forced redistribution reliably increases prices overall due to the increased costs of logistics and administration. There is no free lunch.
If you want to argue your point, you have to address the real fiscal burdens on modern societies, and the real drivers of debt across the West. The biggest components of government debt are medical care and pensions (including Social Security in the US). These are the things that are bankrupting us, not food and clothing.