The mayor’s office says it would be the first major U.S. city to enact such a plan.

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    So you’re talking about “edge cases” and also claiming it effects over 17 million Americans. That’s a lot of human suffering.

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      We should strive to improve. But the modern food system which is overwhelmingly capitalist has produced the most food secure system to the most people ever. Calling it a failure over 5%, especially without context and scope is foolish.

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        The modern food system is not capitalist. We extensively subsidize farming, so that farmers will produce excesses despite a lack of corresponding market demand. This socially-funded excessive production is the foundation of our food security.

        Capitalism does not produce such a system. Capitalism sees production in excess of actual demand as wasteful, and seeks to eliminate it.

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          We subsidize farmers, so we don’t have a famine. Has nothing to do with it being socially funded.

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              The only way capitalism can prevent a famine is if the individual can be expected to adequately plan and prepare for a food shortage. History says we won’t do that.

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            Please clarify your point. You seem to be saying “the subsidies we provide have nothing to do with subsidization”.

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              Because it doesn’t…we subsidize farmers, so we don’t have a famine…we don’t subsidize farmers because of socialism or capitalism. It’s literally done as a fail safe. It’s the same reason we have metric tons of cheese on hand as well.

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                The idea that the government should provide such a failsafe against famine is an act of socialism. A purely capitalist approach to a famine is that the individual should be responsible for preparing their own means of surviving it, or perish in an act of economic Darwinism.

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        My guy, shut the fuck up. Who is paying you to spout this nonsense? Because if no one is, you are getting played.