BodyBySisyphus [he/him]

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Cake day: November 17th, 2021

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  • How do you reconcile that with the fact that before the slave trade and colonialism, famine and malnourishment in Africa were comparatively rare? Why, despite the increase in technology and food production capability do these problems exist now when they didn’t then?

    Don't peek at the answer before you've tried to solve it yourself
    Seriously, just google Jason Hickel first, the work's been done

    It’s because the departing colonial powers stuck Africa with a bunch of debt and export-oriented modes of production, which means that food and goods that could provide a sustainable existence for Africans is being taken off the continent at fire sale prices, leaving them without the funds to adequately supplement at global prices.






  • The Pareto principle is an economics idea - something is considered Pareto efficient if you can make someone better off without making someone else worse off, and you are at a Pareto optimum when you can’t make anyone better off without making someone worse off. Of course, because “better off” and “worse off” are entirely up for interpretation, people argue that taxing the rich to improve the lives of the poor is not Pareto efficient because you’re worse off if you have less money regardless of how much money you have left. So the only Pareto efficient solution is to grow the economy until all the poor people make enough money.