It’d be less of a problem if there was no cost to throwing edible food thrown away. That excess grown food decomposes and releases potent greenhouse gasses; an externality that the people deciding how much food to grow don’t have to pay. The entire motive for not selling all your crops is to maximize profit, and profit has no regard for how it serves society.
It’s all too often left out of the conversation, but part of the feedback loop for chasing profits are the opportunity costs when trying to attract investment capital. The capitalist class being able to freely invest wherever they want causes them to demand corner cutting, force exploitative practices, and encourage everyone to ignore externalities. Capitalism is not simply events and practices that can be viewed in isolation, but an interconnected system where bullshit in one industry does not stay in one industry. People not being able to grasp such a large and interconnected system is part of why it is so hard to oppose.
It’s viscerally upsetting to view food being wasted when so many cannot afford to eat properly. Even though throwing away food it is not the direct reason for mass starvation, it is a cog in the machine that creates it. For that reason, people drawing the line between the two is not as irrational as you think.
If you see food on the other side of the world being wasted fret not because having it shipped to you would be dramatically worse. The meme doesn’t make sense it’s okay to call out things that are wrong doesn’t say anything about me other than I am an asshole.
It’d be less of a problem if there was no cost to throwing edible food thrown away. That excess grown food decomposes and releases potent greenhouse gasses; an externality that the people deciding how much food to grow don’t have to pay. The entire motive for not selling all your crops is to maximize profit, and profit has no regard for how it serves society.
It’s all too often left out of the conversation, but part of the feedback loop for chasing profits are the opportunity costs when trying to attract investment capital. The capitalist class being able to freely invest wherever they want causes them to demand corner cutting, force exploitative practices, and encourage everyone to ignore externalities. Capitalism is not simply events and practices that can be viewed in isolation, but an interconnected system where bullshit in one industry does not stay in one industry. People not being able to grasp such a large and interconnected system is part of why it is so hard to oppose.
It’s viscerally upsetting to view food being wasted when so many cannot afford to eat properly. Even though throwing away food it is not the direct reason for mass starvation, it is a cog in the machine that creates it. For that reason, people drawing the line between the two is not as irrational as you think.
If you see food on the other side of the world being wasted fret not because having it shipped to you would be dramatically worse. The meme doesn’t make sense it’s okay to call out things that are wrong doesn’t say anything about me other than I am an asshole.