Humanity is the only species with free access to enough resources for its every member, and yet it purposefully restricts access to those resources. Every day, tons upon tons of perfectly good food are thrown away because no one needs to buy them. At the same time, people go hungry. Every day, millions upon millions of perfectly good homes are left vacant because no one needs to buy them. At the same time, people go homeless. Thinking outside the capitalist box for a moment, why is this? Why can't people eat food that'll only be thrown out? Why can't people live in homes that'll only be left vacant? It's silly, disgustingly silly. It's silly because looking at it from any objective angle would be cause for laughter and disgusting because it causes immense human suffering. But to answer my own question, it's a side effect of our society. The way we live is based on the idea that everything which can be given must be sold for profit. However, this, in a roundabout way, means that anything which can't be sold for profit can't be given. The thing about this rule, though, is that we made it and everything else about our society up. It isn't set in stone and there is therefore no reason why we can't change it. Every hungry or homeless person is hungry or homeless because we allow them to be. We are guilty. The truly preposterous thing, however, is that we've chosen to do this for no valid reason at all. It's like when you self-impose challenges when playing a game, such as only using your starter weapon or giving yourself the minimum amount of health, except it's real fucking life and not a game. Our disgustingly silly society has mandated that every person must earn the completely available resources they need to survive by collecting green paper, and if they can't do that, too bad. We have, for God knows why, decided to shoot ourselves in our collective foot to the detriment of our most vulnerable. Hunger and homelessness are not inescapable facts of life because, for some time now, we've been making our own facts. At any time, we can change things, and yet we don't. We can't call our society civilized while it allows for such completely needless suffering. Even amongst our fellow organisms, we are an oddity. If you gave a squirrel a lifetime supply of acorns, do you think that it'd continue hoarding more? No, it'd be more than happy with what it has and would leave the rest for its peers. I'd laugh at our society if I and everyone else weren't currently living in it, and it shouldn't even be an argument that something should be done to change things