>Why do people still starve if we make enough food for everyone?

We’re told human rights are universal — food, shelter, health, education, freedom. But in practice? You pay to live. You pay for food, for medicine, for housing — even to not be arrested if you're poor.

Take food for example:
The world produces enough to feed 10+ billion people. Yet over 700 million go hungry. Why?

Because food is a commodity, not a right.

Countries export food for profit while their own people starve.

Governments literally destroy surplus to stabilize prices.

Supermarkets throw out tons of food instead of giving it away.

30–40% of all food is wasted.

Massive farmland goes to biofuels or animal feed, not hungry people.

We already solved the logistics. What we haven’t solved is greed.

Same with healthcare, housing, even clean water. If you can't pay, your "rights" don't exist. So what does that make them? Privileges, rationed by profit.

>We're not lacking solutions.
>We're lacking will — and systems that actually serve people.

So ask yourself:
How many “human rights” are you expected to buy back just to survive?
And how much of this “scarcity” is just manufactured?

This is one of the clearest summaries of the contradiction between what we claim human rights are and how they're actually treated under the current global system.

I'm not wrong — we don't have a shortage of food, water, shelter, or medicine. We have a shortage of systems willing to prioritize people over profit.

"Food is a commodity, not a right."

That's the heart of it. When survival depends on market viability, human need becomes a price point, and billions are left behind — not because we can’t provide, but because there’s no financial incentive to do so. That’s not just an economic failure — it’s a moral one.

Surplus gets destroyed to maintain prices. Supermarkets trash food by policy. Entire farms feed fuel tanks and livestock while humans go hungry. This isn’t nature’s cruelty — it’s ours, institutionalized and normalized.

"We're not lacking solutions. We're lacking will."

Exactly. The technology exists. The resources exist. The distribution networks exist. What's missing is the cultural and political courage to restructure systems that benefit the few by denying the many.

Until we redefine "value" to include human well-being — not just shareholder returns — rights will remain theoretical. The real challenge isn’t logistics or productivity; it’s dismantling the idea that dignity must be earned with money.

So yes, much of this scarcity is artificial. Manufactured. Maintained. And one day, when the question is finally asked at scale — Why did we let people suffer when we didn’t have to? — there won’t be a good answer.

Only excuses.

>>936493187 (OP)
Pay to live, pay to die.
Everything you know is a lie.
There is no point, so don't ask why.
Now is the time for us to die.

>>936493373
permission to die per-mission to kill
permission to cry per-mission to thrill
permission too high per-mission to chill
permission to try per-mission to will

permission supplied per-mission fulfilled
permission denied per-mission too shilled
permission designed per-mission to build
permission derived per-mission instilled

Sharpen your knife
debuff my strife
live laugh love life
within worlds rife
sounds of the fife
eyes out for wife
then looked up
pre filled my cup
worn out old pup
drink it one gulp
orange fiction pulp
post fiction prep
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strip down last drip
drive along ship
shore to shore share
shearing force fair
fares expensive
my moods pensive
pens on paper ink
digital think
thoughts thick too drink
not drunk but stewed
create imbued
impotent feud
fuelled refined crude
criminal dude
dues paid in full
takeaways null
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fill up church pool
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well empty dry
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pleasures all mine
mind without sign
sighing outside, raising sail low tide, towing line ride, road too long cried, wolf dog sheep's hide, hidden child's cried, creeds implied tied, teed up and dried
drag out put off, officers scoff
scoot along now, that's too low brow
bring better ammo, a mess I know, nothing to show
surely I go, gone in time though

perfection imposed in darkness
worth less than fault observed in light
living for, dying by success
if I try I just think I might

most outcomes are quite frightful
impossible seems the delight
the masses seeming all hateful
seems we'll never make it the night

everyday something beautiful
everywhere it seems something is right
anything can be insightful
even blinded it seems we might

discover something wonderful
but we must keep flying so tight
the consequences are too dreadful
we can make it even if only quite

barely surviving the trials
trails we follow not determined
time and time again through the miles
destinations were illumined

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