I like how they took a photo that is clearly very mundane and used a filter to make it look like literal hell. Very subtle.
no that’s just what China under the cee cee pee looks like
Oh this grey filter we apply to shots of Chinese cities? That’s just a reality filter to show how bad things really are.
Xi jinping failed to consider that food isn’t a universal right under capitalism. How are we supposed to condemn China as capitalist and fascist if they do socialism?!?
This feels like the headlines like “Affordable housing would help homeless people, but is it worth the cost to kill real estate profits?”
Farmers putting the entire food supply at risk by growing nothing but cash crops is the ur-inefficiency of market based production. There are probably Babylonian tablets complaining about a shortage of cereals because everyone tried to grow dates instead.
dutch devoting 100% of arable land to tulip futures
spoiler
probably didn’t happen but what if it did
“Capitalism breeds innovation”
-Ea-Nāṣir
Good for feeding people but not valuable
the economist is the worst newspaper I have ever read, it’s so disconnected from reality, I remember reading a post titled “Why aren’t millenials buying diamonds?”… taking it seriously is a huge red flag for me
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oh I didn’t know thanks, sorry
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Lenin dismissed the Economist as “a journal which speaks for British millionaires”.
Oh I didn’t know that. I think nowadays it’s more to the delusional free market dudebros that think they’ll someday be millionaires if they just don’t buy coffee at work or something
fixation on food security
caring more about feeding people than feeding profits makes you a monster to The Economist
The fact that The Economist has a clear set of ideological commitments means that it will pull the wool over its readers’ eyes in the service of those commitments, which saps it of intellectual worth. It will lie to you about the contents of a book by waving them away with a “that being so.” Or it will reassure you that capitalism has nothing to do with opiate deaths, by asserting without evidence that when “looked at more closely,” drug addiction is “less” about despair. It will fudge, fumble, and fool you in any way it can, if it means keeping markets respectable. And it will play on your insecurity as a resident of a former British colony to convince you that all intelligent people believe that the human misery created in “economically free” societies is necessary and just. It will give intellectual cover to barbarous crimes, and its authors won’t even have the guts to sign their names to their work. Instead, they will pretend to be the disembodied voice of God, whispering in your ear that you’ll never impress England until you fully deregulate capitalism.
So, then: Death to slavery. Death to injustice. Death to The Economist.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/05/how-the-economist-thinks
Those god damn commies aren’t going corn, the most profitable crop, like the free market and god intended!
It’s funny, considering corn is actually a great crop for feeding people. We just don’t do that with it lol.
Yes. The single individual. Forcing this country of over a billion people against their will to have their own sustainable food supply. On his own. Like a dictator.
There’s some older work, specifically Heston, C., Fleischer, R., et al (1973) building off of Harrison, H. (1966) that looks at the disastrous societal consequences the unintended side effects that these food security policies can produce.
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IT’S A PUN, A PUN
good for feeding people
not valuable
choose one, piggy
President Biden, please start bombing. My country yearns for hunger.
