They need the poors to fight their wars and work on their factory floors.
And to focus on perceived races, while keeping women and queers in their places.
(I’m working on the last line, too long)
Supermarkets destroy food if it doesn't sell. We can always feed the world. We just don't.
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pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
Z745812939054@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
the peasant class exists to generate more money for the owner class, not the other way around.
always has been
PixellatedDave@feddit.uk 3 hours ago
I think also rich people need to have poor people otherwise they won’t be seen to be rich. Also wealth = power
Z745812939054@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
you make a good point, but i think of “rich people” as the families who have been unimaginably wealthy for hundreds of years. not musk, not bezos, bill gates, etc. the “old money” doesn’t care if you know they’re rich–in fact they would prefer you didn’t. they just want to control the trajectory of your life in order to keep you in your place, and prevent you from encroaching on their position of power.
think warburgs and rothschilds, not the idiotic rich people flaunting their wealth on twitter
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 hour ago
We have too good to go, it’s an app where shops can sell stuff that is near end of life at a discount. Some shops are better than others, we spent £3.99 for a portion at a local bakery recently and got 2 huge bags of baked goods.
Food doesn’t get wasted and it costs very little compared to it’s regular value. There is also a charity that focuses on similar things but
elitist cuntsfriends and family have said I can’t go there because I am not starving. They make it sound like a food bank when it’s a shop selling products cheaply - or it was, they closed recently. Wanted to go but heavy social pressure/judgement not to put me off…TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
It seems to me that affordability starts with housing, because it is usually a household’s single largest monthly expense. And it seems to me the best way to make housing more affordable is to make it non-profit. That doesn’t necessarily mean city owned or other public housing, nor does it mean tax payer funded or subsidized housing, but having apartment buildings owned by a non-profit organization that charges tenants only enough rent to cover their expenses without any extra going to the owner as profit. And the thing, non-profit housing isn’t only theoretical. It exists right now, but it’s relatively rare. The reason is for-profit landlords don’t want it because they can’t compete.
Let’s say you have two identical apartment buildings, but one is owned by a non-profit housing cooperative and the other is owned by a private landlord. The non-profit housing cooperative is going to have the same ongoing expenses (property management, maintenance, etc) as the private landlord, because the apartments are identical, but rent will be lower at the non-profit housing because they charge only enough rent to cover expenses whereas the private landlord charges rent to cover expenses plus some for his own personal profit.
Yliaster@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
He does sound like he’s doing a lot more than the average politician rn, but I wonder if he’s just gonna end up w a crossheir to his head for it.
areakode@riskeratspizza.com 2 hours ago
Going up against the Pedo class will always paint a target on people working to change the system. We need MORE Mamdanis in this world. Keep voting for the good guys!
Yliaster@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Agreed. Maybe the US could revive itself if there were similars in the other 49 states.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I just woke up. I’m not even out of bed. Why you gotta make me sad before I’ve even put socks on???
Yliaster@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
It’s just how things are, unfortunately. Not saying it should be.
Surp@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I love mamdani but “who” are these people that are scared? Many of them openly don’t give a shit and literally say it…
AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social 2 hours ago
You mean like the president who literally called his voters stupid and does exactly the detrimental shit to the country he ran his campaign on? Yeah, I get the skepticism, lol.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
Ok so what happens when you put food that close to going off onto a ship for a few weeks? You’re just shipping rotten food to people.
The problems of logistics isn’t “a choice” it’s a very real thing.
Since the advent of GMO, starvation ls largely about political instability and conflicts. It’s hard to get food to warzones. Something to think about before promoting violence as a solution to a problem.
adarza@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
a few of the stores here, including both ‘grocery’ stores, do contribute close-dated and past-dated foodstuffs that isn’t actually spoiled or bad to the local food pantry, who then distributes it to a huge line of people each week.
some weeks it’s a pretty light box to pick up, but every now and then there will be a package of porterhouse or t-bones at the bottom of the box underneath all the “should’ve been eaten a week ago” produce.
HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
This isn’t always true. I was a volunteer at a Salvation Army food bank, and there would be crates upon crates upon crates of near expiry/day old bakery stuff/etc coming in from a local supermarket.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s not nearly enough. But there are some glimmers of hope within the rubble.
nocturne@slrpnk.net 1 hour ago
I am really surprised the Salvation Army does not destroy stuff in front of people who need it.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 15 minutes ago
I do a lot of big events at hotels, and you would be shocked at how much amazing food they throw out. I know you think you know, but trust me you have no idea.