The Right To Eat

Not even going to provide commentary but urge you to read this piece on India’s struggles with hunger. It is amazing (oh wait now I am commenting oh well) how ideology humps itself in there on questions of morality–do we let the market play a role, what can government do, etc. That happens here, too, of course. Earlier this summer I tried to pay for a ferry ticket with a $20 bill, which the ferry guy refused, telling me it was counterfeit. This struck me as supremely absurd. Isn’t money in general just an elaborate charade? If he had accepted the $20, then used it to pay someone else, would it have made any difference? It’s not magic paper, it’s just a mutually-agreed-upon fantasy symbol. Mostly I feel like I think we should just do away with it altogether. Start over with a clean slate. But first, let’s feed everyone.

2 thoughts on “The Right To Eat

  1. Oh my god, I had this exact conversation last summer with a friend, and I was pointing out how everybody just *decided* money works. That’s it’s just sort of made up. He was not havin it.

    1. It’s like the post office! I mean how weird is it that you stick a piece of paper on another piece of paper and then put the whole thing in a box on the street and two days later it’s on the other side of the world? IT’S MADNESS WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT.

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