“People are dying of starvation”
“Well if you dirty statists just let us sell rotten food there wouldn’t be a hunger issue”
Government is just another word for the bleach we pour over donated food so the homeless can’t eat it together.
very interesting
anyway remember when in grapes of wrath they poured kerosene on oranges to not reduce prices as people starved
Yes I do remember the part in Grapes of Wrath where the farmers followed the legally empowered Agricultural Adjustment Administration’s directives to destroy food.
“The Roosevelt Administration was tasked with decreasing agricultural surpluses,” to quote Wikipedia quoting Douglas.
Huh, it turns out that that act was forced into existence by large farmers and food processors, who financially benefit from people starving! All while these people horribly exploited their workers to the point of starvation and viciously rebelled against the “socialistic” resettlement program!
Turns out that these bastards love to see people die. Huh.
I have absolutely no idea how this is an argument against free market policies.
Companies will bribe politicians and distort the market if they are not actively prevented from doing so through state interference. Free markets are not a perfectly stable equilibrium and competition requires effort - and state interference - to maintain.
