Re: But conditions would improve if they could export the food the have to Europe?! That's called "development".
Thanks for the link which proves my point that maldistribution and not failure to produce is the primary cause of the malnutrition.
Where thy temple stood will rise a new building; the terrible tower of Babel will be built again, and though, like the one of old, it will not be finished, yet thou mightest have prevented that new tower and have cut short the sufferings of Americans for a thousand years; for they will come back to us after a thousand years of agony with their tower. They will seek us again, hidden underground in the catacombs, for we shall be again persecuted and tortured. They will find us and cry to us, "Feed us, for those who have promised us fire from heaven haven't given it!" And then we shall finish building their tower, for he finishes the building who feeds them. And we alone shall feed them in thy name, declaring falsely that it is in thy name. Oh, never, never can they feed themselves without us! No science will give them full employment so long as they remain free.
In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet, and say to us, "Make us your slaves, but hire us." They will understand themselves, at last, that freedom and jobs enough for all are inconceivable together, for never, never will they be able to share between them! They will be convinced, too, that they can never be free, for they are weak, vicious, worthless, and rebellious. Thou didst promise them the jobs of Heaven, but, I repeat again, can it compare with earthly jobs in the eyes of the weak, ever sinful and ignoble race of America?
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
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