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That’s not the point. What good is the ability to grow enough food for everyone if we arbitrarily withhold it from them?

I’d argue patching a system that values the very few over the many is not an advancement.




It's hardly a solved problem, but it's getting much better.

Wordwide undernourishment rates went from 19% to 11% from 1991 to 2015. [1]

Another couples decades of human progress and starvation will be rather rare. :fingerscrossed:

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/hunger-and-undernourishment


The numbers are positive and I respect your optimism.

I have nothing to add but wanted to say that.




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