a significant factor can be attributed to fear of losing something seen as essential and not guaranteed.
This is a lie told to us, as zephr_c alludes to, by those manipulating society for their own gain.
The reality is that there is enough food produced globally to feed 10 billion people, we only don’t because it isn’t profitable.
That isn’t to say the fear of being left without, under our current system, isn’t a very real one, it is, and I’m subject to it myself as I’m sure you are, my point is that we need to be aware (and make others aware) of who is telling us there isn’t enough (and putting our lives at risk for money by exploiting us more and more as well as withholding food and housing) and why, rather than just accept it as an inevitable reality, because it isn’t.
This is a lie told to us, as zephr_c alludes to, by those manipulating society for their own gain.
The reality is that there is enough food produced globally to feed 10 billion people, we only don’t because it isn’t profitable.
That isn’t to say the fear of being left without, under our current system, isn’t a very real one, it is, and I’m subject to it myself as I’m sure you are, my point is that we need to be aware (and make others aware) of who is telling us there isn’t enough (and putting our lives at risk for money by exploiting us more and more as well as withholding food and housing) and why, rather than just accept it as an inevitable reality, because it isn’t.