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We literally have enough food to feed everyone. But there are people who will prevent everyone from being fed because having control over the food gives them power (e.g. warlords in Africa).
The bottom line is, you can't solve world hunger until you solve world peace, and the fact is that you can't buy peace.
Food distribution (and the costs associated with it) have always been the root cause of food poverty, but that's only if you stay in such a rigid, master/slave dynamic.
Empowering communities to be self-sufficient in their food production and energy production can very effectively end the supply problem.
Peace can only come when there is no need to be greedy, especially among a handful of billionaires.
When people's needs are met, and there's no reward to take more than you could ever need, there's peace. When you have fewer people with more power than they should ever have, there's next to no chance for war, either.
In an equitable society, peace is pretty much the default. Using money wisely can give you a societal return on investment that can come through no other means; it pays for resources, education, and technology to get us there.
But at the very least, use the current state of the world and the recent examples of wealth hoarding as an example of how NOT to do things.
The implication that all conflict originates in resource scarcity is incredibly naive.
You subtly dropped your mask, there, but I know enough to recognize your ideology. We're just a few exchanges from "all struggles are power struggles where one is the oppressor and the other is the oppressed, and will inevitably culminate in violence".
Save it for someone more gullible. I'm exiting this thread.
Bottom line: billionaires are not the cause of poverty. Ironically, the increase in billionaires is correlated with a decrease in poverty in the population at large. You would not be any less poor if Amazon never existed.
Scarcity? I said greed. The rich are among the greediest, and they are far from living in scarcity.
What I'm saying is that there would be no need for conflict if everyone's needs were met. Although billionaires contradict this statement, I tend to exclude psychopaths and mentally unstable people when referring to the whole of society.
The business model that created billionaires is exactly what causes hard-working people to not have enough to afford to retire.
Please don't fool yourself into thinking that a system that incentivizes wealth hoarding is not a major part of the problem.