Sunday, February 27, 2011

850 Million Starving people on the world!!!


We cannot say that the hunger problem is directly caused by overconsumption of
rich countries but we cannot deny its immediate effects on the economies of
poorer countries.
today, all around the world farmers and workers are cramming in order to meet
the demands of rich countries. you create the poverty trap like this:

-first, create "credits" for poor people. give it to them if only they buy out
of fashion technologies from 1st world countries.
-once they are indebted, force them to pay back. they both have to pay the debt
and you already got your money back by selling them stuff. 
-since the technology you sold them is years old, dont buy their products. if
they produce real good, put some trade barriers and political reasons in order
to keep their goods away from your market.
-hey, they got a huge surplus of trinkets and you got both technology and money.
they must be hopeless now. start buying their products at low price. say, sell
them one computer and buy 2 tons of coffee in return. 
-this way, they will never put the two ends together and pay their debts and be
able to feed their own citizens. they will keep on producing peanuts, apples,
exotic souvenirs, whatever 1st world countries are willing to buy cheaply, in
order to pay back their debts. since they have no money to invest, they will
never be able to change their production patterns. in order to get a little bit
more money they will produce more and more but this will cause a further fall in
the general prices as supply increases. so, now u can buy 5 tons of coffee for
one computer.
-generally coffee doesnt feed people. coffee is just a stupid example. if u look
closer you will see that the hungry coountries are also producing stuff but it
just doesnt make enough money to feed them. the farmers who have been farming
for themselves are now farming to earn money and buy something. so, subsistence
economy left its place to some weird version of capitalism. due to shortage of
other goods, they will always be too expensive and impossible to buy with the
money earned from "raw" products. their products are just not profitable enough.
the production policy of the country is not well-set because of unable or
corrupt politicians. 

so, i see a big and fundamental economic problem in here. if we want the hungry
to be fed first we need to give up cheap coffee, peanuts, soya beans and so on.
direct foreign investments will not be a good way neither since it will only be
in form of "agricultural firms" which will employ people like slaves and they
will earn even less than when they had lands. the south american countries and
foreign food firms are a typical example for this. and foreign direct
investments only go to politically and socially stable countries, not war and
hunger struck ones. if u were a firm, would u invest to a country where there's
an internal war for example? or where the transport is to difficult or
impossible?? how will you carry your raw materials and products while working in
a sub-saharan country- with camels?
 
teaching ppl how to catch fish rather than giving the fish is a very good idea.
so, i also back microcredits and education, especially family planning and fight
against diseases such as aids. but as far as i remember, the medical firms were
unwilling to lower down the prices of aids medicine for Africa. how do you call
this? erasing the debts of the countries is an imperative and first-hand
solution of how to beat hunger. the second solution can be small amounts of
money donated (not credit) in order to build infrastructure in these countries-
roads, hospitals, irrigation etc. it would really cost less than what we expect.
the problem is- is the rich really willing to share a little bit of its fortune
with the poor.

did you know that the daily consumption of water used for irrigation in golf
fields is equal to daily worldwide consumption water amount? do u know how many
ppl die out of draughts??

the solution is very obvious, but some will carry on masturbating their
consciousness by donating 1 euro via telephone.
cheers

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