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US Politics 4d

I thought capitalism doesn't kill people though?

US Politics 4d

almost 40% of food produced in the US is thrown away while 50 million americans (including 17 million children) are food insecure, so if you see someone stealing food at the grocery store this holiday season, especially after snap benefits are gone,

Anonymous 4d

No one starves because of poverty in the US. There are less than 30 deaths from starvation every year in a country of 350 million people. Invariably, these are the result of criminal abuse or neglect, not poverty.

Anonymous

#1 4d

Sure people may not "starve" but what about the 1+ million that have died since 1999 from malnutrition caused by food insecurity. PMCID: PMC10990269

Anonymous

OP 4d

Read your own citation more carefully. Theres an extra comma. Thats 103,952 people over 21 years, almost exclusively among the elderly in hospice or nursing homes, not food insecure households.

Anonymous

#1 4d

Dyslexia kicked my ass on that one but the original point still stands. Capitalism ( at least the American form) still is a driving force of these deaths. There's a very clear market inefficiently that gets amplified by capitalism.

Anonymous

OP 4d

On what grounds is the American economic system to blame, when the American economic system produces relatively few malnutrition deaths?

Anonymous

#1 4d

Well your graph kinda proves it. Death rate from malnutrition is rising while falling in other parts. Compare market center capitalism like USA vs the mal death rates in a non purely capitalist country like Japan (japans obviously still capitalist but with still sees a ton of government interference)

Anonymous

#1 4d

It's pretty clear that this a misallocation when you have any death from malnutrition when there is no scarcity in food. Not exactly fair to compare rates to the world when other countries actually see food scarcity.