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- The Abolition of Work by Bob Black (1985) | listen
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- In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell (1932) | listen
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It does however get considerably cheaper to produce more food when production is scaled up. If enough people got together on the "free food" they could potentially do it cheaper than what capitalism provides.
The issue however is that capitalism has already made food really fucking cheap. It's actually too cheap. And that is because someone else is paying the true cost of providing it. Obviously the animals who sacrifice the their lives, but also the human workers who also sacrifice their lives, just to bring food for everyone. Everyone eats, nobody gets paid, except for the owners who also do none of the work.
On a per capita basis, yes. But the Doritos that sell for $6 a bag come out of a multi billion dollar organization (Frito Lay, part of Pepsi).
Individuals coming together to produce a single bag of Doritos aren't going to be able to do it for $6. They need the infrastructure of that multi billion dollar corporation to get there.
Yes, exactly. The problem is to get local produce cheaper than importing global crap. Distribution is a huge part of it. It shouldn't be cheaper to transport crap food globally than for a domestic producer to deliver quality food, but it is.
I don't understand how people overlook this so easily.
People acknowledge the amount of work and labor required to produce food and insist food shouldn't be cheap/free... But then just ignore the fact that we're paying less money to also move that shit across the globe on giant machinery that had to be produced and burning fuels that had to be extracted and refined.
The thing is, you can't source enough local produce to support any significant population. I live in a town of 641,162 (2021 numbers), you're not going to deliver 1,923,486 meals a day, 702,072,390 meals per year, using only local resources. It simply can't be done.
Even on my property, for two people, I would not be able to produce 6 meals a day every day. I have to bring in outside resources.
And outsourcing this solves the problem how? You're just making someone else deal with your locality's problem.
It's not just my locality, it's any locality more than, say 50-100 people.