December 9th, 2023
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Being able to feed your family means you deprive another man of the ability to feed his own
Life in modern society is a zero sum game and we often don’t realize that everything we take for ourselves we take away from others. I just got a rotisserie chicken at the grocery store and then in the parking lot I heard a man profusely apologizing to his wife on the phone, saying they ran out of rotisserie chickens. His family will go hungry tonight, while mine will feast. That’s just the way of the world.
December 9th, 2023
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Huge_CandyBalls
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New-Fix303
Or they could buy something else?
Modern economics with all it's flaws is definitely not a zero sum game.
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MayorCharlesCoulon
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mykidsthinkimcool
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happy_songs
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mcbridejm83
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Couldn't the other family just eat/buy something else?
Sure you took the last of what they went to buy, but there are other options, no?
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ljr55555
Exactly! When traditional poverty foods become vogue and the price goes up and up? That actually deprived some people of that item. Lobster way back, oxtails, quinoa. They move on to what's cheap now, not starve, but it's fundamentally problematix to have a traditional food choice disrupted.
This? Temporarily inconvenience at best. I guess it's possible OP lives in a food desert, but most places? Dude picked something else, stopped at one of the several other grocery stores to get the chicken, or got takeout from a restaurant.
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