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The Benefits of World Hunger (lemmy.ml)
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The article is actually decently well written good-faith satire meant to address how poverty and hunger are inherent to capitalism as a system. The title was just too bold lol

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[–] Infynis@midwest.social 75 points 2 years ago (4 children)

hunger is "fundamental to the working of the world's economy"

I mean, he's probably right, but that means we should work to change the system, not throw more orphans into the crushing machine

[–] Bread@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 years ago

But the machine needs those orphans to keep going! Why would we want to deprive the system of what it needs? Won't anybody think of the shareholders!?!

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Which is actually said in the original article

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

there's no "but" -- this is exactly the point the author is making.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Won't anybody think of the employees in the orphan crushing industry?