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CrazyGamer2017 on 09 April 2018
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KLAMarine said:
CrazyGamer2017 said:

Yes but when paying for food becomes a situation where some people literally has to starve to death cause they can't pay for it, then the system itself is wrong. And that's exactly the issue, the system, in other words: capitalism.

Just cause we don't see children starving cause it happens far away or even in our own country but we still don't see it does not make it less of a crime. A society that lets its children starve to preserve a system that in the end is only good for a minority of people (cause even the middle class is having a harder time than they used to), then such a system is fundamentally wrong.

I'm not sure I'd automatically point a finger at capitalism for starvation in a given place. Sometimes other factors have a greater impact on food supplies like natural disasters or war. Additionally, no economic system will change the fact that seeds need planting, crops need harvesting, and food needs transportation to get to where it's needed most.

I don't know, maybe a system where food is produced locally instead of it being transported half way across the world would help toward a smaller environmental impact AND a cheaper price at retail. But transporting food half way across the world is part of globalization and globalization is one of the pillars of capitalism.

As for wars and natural disasters, they cause the problems in some examples of starvation but the actual starvation is caused by the fact that the people caught in wars and natural disasters can't afford what they need to recover from said disasters and that issue of not being able to recover is directly caused by their poverty AKA lack of money AKA capitalism.