> but no one has ever achieved much success (even communism, which ought to do it) I'm sorry but if you clicked the 3rd link, then you could see many examples of income based solutions working to alleviate food insecurity. Some of these policies are very well known: Canada's public pension, Canada Child Benefit, etc.

> Saving one starfish at a time is better than none Yes, sure but what I'm saying is that you're not saving the starfish at all! It's like you have thousands of thirsty starfish and instead of figuring out ways to put them back in the sea, we're focusing our efforts on Looney-tunes like water dropper contraptions for each individual starfish. And then patting ourselves on the back for it.