Captialism
"Why are people in Somolia starving to death? Because they don't have any money. There's plenty of food in the world, just not enough money."
Isn't there something wrong when there is food sitting around not being eaten, while people are starving, and their only problem is that they don't have money, nor make money? Perhaps a fly in the ointment that is Capitalism.
posted by Macbeth54 @ 9:10 PM
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It's been said another part of the problem is distribution. Getting food from where it's made to Somalia is not cheap. But then, if the Somalis had money, perhaps it would be profitable.
Then again, the Somalis don't have a free market. There are warlords all over the place there, so it's not even safe to travel. Maybe if they had a free market, they could market a product and be able to afford food. Or they could grow their own and sell that inside the country.
If they have money, then American shipments of food would be good; but if the Somalis grow food to sell, then American shipments of food would be bad, since they'd undercut the Somali's own sales.
Galen points out the main problem in Somalia..Somalia has no recognized central government authority, no national currency, nor any other feature associated with an established nation state. De facto authority resides in the hands of the governments for the unrecognized entities of Somaliland, Puntland, and other rival warlords.
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