Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 08:06:36 -0500 (EST)
From: "Bruce D. Burleson" <anvil-AT-tiac.net>
Subject: Re: M-I: Plague panic



On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, James Heartfield wrote:

> The means exist to feed the world many times over. The fact that it does
> not happen is not due to an absolute scarcity, but to the artificial
> scarcity that capitalism creates by holding wages to a minimum.


I would add that capitalism also artificially holds food prices at a
maximum by (a) paying farmers not to grow crops (a common practice in
the U.S.) and (b) actually *destroying* food.  The U.S. actually has
ships that are specially designed to dump grain in the middle of 
the ocean.  So artificial high prices contribute to artificial scarcity.


Bruce Burleson



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