This bears repeating: despite the massive productivity of the world economy, nearly one-third of the human population does not have secure access to food.
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Extreme poverty is a condition of severe humanitarian crisis. It is not a natural condition, and should not exist. It occurs because, in our current economic system, most of our production is organized around what is most profitable to capital, rather than what is most necessary for people.
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This suffering can be eliminated very simply by organizing production - our labour and our resources - first and foremost around human needs and well-being, using basic policies like public provisioning and price controls to ensure universal access to essential goods.
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