Hasan Piker

But nowadays, famine is completely man-made.

And the reason why I say that is because it's not a byproduct of just natural disasters.

But famine is completely man-made because...

We already have a surplus of food.

It's simply a logistical problem, a logistical problem born out of capitalism, a problem born out of the profit motive.

Because if we were to give people food for free, then there would be no profit incentive to generate higher and higher agricultural yields, right?

That to me is inhumane.

14 million people every single year die due to famine-related diseases in a world where food distribution is simply a decision made by capital owners to not give people the necessary food that they need to survive.

An example of this obviously is taking place in Somalia and Sudan right now as a consequence of America's military actions, this war of choice alongside Israel in Iran.

The Strait of Hormuz is closed and Africa is suffering right now because they can't get necessary fuel supply.

When you don't have fuel, you can't deliver water to certain areas that don't have desalination plants or clean water.

So, there are reverberations that are felt oftentimes by the poorest people on the planet and we never really consider them.

Now, that juxtaposition, that inequality also persists in the United States of America, the wealthiest nation on earth.

This is the wealthiest nation on the planet and there's so much promise, there's so much opportunity, so much potential here and yet in the wealthiest nation on earth, 700,000 people

sleep outside every single night i mean that's preposterous right and and the solution to that is is so simple really if we were to to just like retool our system a little bit because we have all of the wealth we have all of the the potential we have all of the opportunity to change this system to ensure that that doesn't happen because it's unbelievably inhumane and yet

We don't do it because this is the way the system is designed.

This is the way capitalism has to continue.

And yet, in spite of the same wealth inequality, if not worse, that we're currently experiencing in comparison to the Gilded Age,

Americans are sleepwalking in the direction of fascism.

And that's what I want to avoid.