Reply #82: They may grow enough, but that only serves to prove my point.

[originalpckelly]

It suggests that a legitimate reason for food shortages, like drought, is not the causes behind this food shortage.

No matter how hard we try, we cannot rid humanity of its lesser motives. While it's a nice thought that people will only do good for others, one cannot rely on that idea when creating a system of good/service regulation/distribution. You have to plan that people are greedy, and will do really shitty things to one another. The idea of capitalism is that we check these greedy motives with the greedy motives of other people. By turning greed against itself, we check greed.

Please do explain to me why Venezuela is going to end up differently than the Soviet Union?