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The greatest man-made disaster in history will always be the commodification of basic necessities. Millions annually gone— not because the water/food doesn’t exist, but because it is economically inaccessible to them.
51 upvotes, 4 comments. Yik Yak image post by boariskarloff in US Politics. "The greatest man-made disaster in history will always be the commodification of basic necessities.

Millions annually gone— not because the water/food doesn’t exist, but because it is economically inaccessible to them."
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Anonymous 14w

Congratulations! This might be the dumbest post I’ve ever seen in this community. You’re citing a death ticker that isn’t measuring starvation. It guesses a number by applying the highest global estimates of all malnutrition-linked deaths, which is nothing like the documented starvation during the Great Leap Forward.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 14w

You blame “commodification,” but most malnutrition deaths occur in places like Sudan where war destroys supply chains and blocks food delivery. Many of the actual famines occur in countries closer to your economic ideology

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 14w

Even if poverty were the main driver, the solution is directly opposed to what you’re advocating for. As countries liberalize their economies, hunger plummets. The most economically free countries have the lowest hunger rates.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 14w

All this while defending the man responsible for the single deadliest famine in human history and calling it a “mistake”

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