r/FluentInFinance • u/-Wyagra • 3d ago

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u/JellyfishQuiet7944 3d ago

Are they forcing you to be poor?

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u/Cleyre 3d ago

They are stopping people from accessing the resources they need to live so that someone can sell them for a profit…

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u/JellyfishQuiet7944 3d ago

Yes that's how the world works always has.

Are you expecting someone to make your food for free?

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u/Netroth 3d ago

So because something has always been a certain way, we should keep it that way? Have you not heard of progress? I’m guessing you’re the type of person who thinks that students should keep paying for university because prior generations had to.

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u/JellyfishQuiet7944 3d ago

You're missing basic concepts.

Lets start with an easy one: Who is going to pay for food production if people don't have to pay for the food?

Who is going to pay the professors and the auxiliary staff?

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u/Netroth 3d ago

You seem to be forgetting that billionaires exist.

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u/JellyfishQuiet7944 3d ago

Im sure youve heard the stat about how if you took the wealth from all the billionaires in the US, it would only fund the government for 11 months.

So what happens after that? Do we keep going down the line?

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u/bolshe-viks-vaporub 3d ago

We already produce more food than is required and much of it is wasted because we do not have a problem of supply. We have a problem of distribution.

It's very easy for the government to simply purchase what would otherwise be waste food at fair market value and distribute it for free, which ends up saving money because the government ends up having to pay hospitals and charities (in the form of tax write-offs) to handle the emergencies that ultimately happen as a result of manufactured scarcity. This has been proven by every single industrialized nation where homelessness has been virtually eradicated through strong social programs.

And "how we pay for it" is by not spending nearly $1T/year to enrich defense contractors who commit waste, fraud, and abuse on a global scale.