Quote from: Beliathon on October 11, 2014, 04:23:57 PM

Quote from: forevernoob on October 11, 2014, 01:41:34 AM

Most people work and can buy all of those things. And those who can't will get assistance from either their families or charitable organizations.

According to the World Health Organization, hunger is the single gravest threat to the world's public health. The WHO also states that malnutrition is by far the biggest contributor to child mortality, present in half of all cases.
Undernutrition is a contributory factor in the death of 3.1 million children under five every year. Capitalism wastes 5/9ths of all food produced annually, and 3 million children die as a result every year.

Somehow I don't think charity is cutting it. I also don't think there's any ethical or intellectually honest way to defend this horrid system.

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"The worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, because they prevented the core of the system from being realized by those who suffered from it and understood by those who contemplated it. Charity degrades and demoralizes.
It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institution of private property. Nice as its sounds, this kind of 'trade with the rich' is not a solution."
-Slavoj Zizek

I wonder where these 3.1 million children live? It most certainly isn't in the western world.
You cannot compare apples and oranges. Of course charity cannot solve the worlds problems.
The world is bit more complex than that.

Capitalism has never been given a chance to work in the third world, the western world is still oppressing the third world in a number of ways.
To give one example: The use of trade agreements in the EU and USA makes it harder for the third world countries to export.

Also many of the countries where people die of hunger are in a state of political chaos, often they are being run by dictators.

How do you expect a society in chaos to prosper? Of course there will be hunger.
Charity can help the poor and disabled, but if everyone is poor who will be able to help?