But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
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Economists create their own worlds. We're like little gods with our artificial economics, wanting to see what happens.
Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons.
People are overweight and starving at the same time. It's a tragedy for both the individual and society.
The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.
People are hungry not because there aren't enough farmers or food, but because they don't have access to it or can't afford it.
We have designed a capitalist system wrong. We assume human beings are one-dimensional, all they do is make money, so we've created a money-centric world.
We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again.
Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.
Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own; we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.
There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
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