The mayor’s office says it would be the first major U.S. city to enact such a plan.

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    We subsidize farmers, so we don’t have a famine. Has nothing to do with it being socially funded.

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      Why can’t capitalism prevent a famine?

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        The only way capitalism can prevent a famine is if the individual can be expected to adequately plan and prepare for a food shortage. History says we won’t do that.

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      Please clarify your point. You seem to be saying “the subsidies we provide have nothing to do with subsidization”.

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        Because it doesn’t…we subsidize farmers, so we don’t have a famine…we don’t subsidize farmers because of socialism or capitalism. It’s literally done as a fail safe. It’s the same reason we have metric tons of cheese on hand as well.

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          The idea that the government should provide such a failsafe against famine is an act of socialism. A purely capitalist approach to a famine is that the individual should be responsible for preparing their own means of surviving it, or perish in an act of economic Darwinism.