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Re:Labor shortage or terrible jobs? by xyzzyz on Saturday May 01, 2021 @10:24AM (#27006549)
> It was examined. In 1944 in the Beverage Report "Full Employment in a Free Society". It concluded that people not earning sufficient to eat is an order of magnitude more harm than businesses not earning a profit and that the labour market should always be a sellers market, not a buyers market

This report is completely irrelevant in today’s America, where everyone has more than enough to eat, especially if they are working.

Re:Labor shortage or terrible jobs? by SamoyedFurFluff on Saturday May 01, 2021 @10:33AM (#27006642)
> today’s America, where everyone has more than enough to eat

What are you talking about? Nearly 1 in 4 households experienced food insecurity during the pandemic.

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/27/912486921/food-insecurity-in-...

Re:Labor shortage or terrible jobs? by xyzzyz on Saturday May 01, 2021 @10:48AM (#27006757)
“Food insecurity” has nothing to do with not having enough food to eat. It’s a term designed to confuse.
Re:Labor shortage or terrible jobs? by kixiQu on Saturday May 01, 2021 @11:09AM (#27006906)
"Food insecurity is the limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods, or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways."

"Food insecurity is a household-level economic and social condition of limited access to food, while hunger is an individual-level physiological condition that may result from food insecurity.

Information about the incidence of hunger is of considerable interest and potential value for policy and program design. But providing precise and useful information about hunger is hampered by the lack of a consistent meaning of the word. "Hunger" is understood variously by different people to refer to conditions across a broad range of severity, from rather mild food insecurity to prolonged clinical undernutrition."

https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/fo...

Re:Labor shortage or terrible jobs? by Can_Not on Sunday May 02, 2021 @09:16AM (#27015022)
It sounds to me like you're just OK with children starving unless it benefits you to point it out.
Re:Labor shortage or terrible jobs? by missedthecue on Sunday May 02, 2021 @03:57PM (#27018464)
Food insecurity is not the same thing as starvation. In fact, that's his whole point.