A fun stunt I'm sure, but it sounds like it was more by way of a free feast for themselves. keep to the Fen Causeway
I don't think the poor desire to enjoy luxuries any less than the rich. Emergency rations of dried bread for the poor, champagne and salmon for the rich, that's still a rather ugly class system. Besides, another point of such a protest is the obscenely high price of food for the rich, which could have fed dozens to thousands of poor with 'normal' food. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
However your second point about the relatively high price of luxury food in the proximity of such deprivation needed to be made. But that leads to a wider connection these people seemed reluctant to draw. keep to the Fen Causeway
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I thought that conclusion was obvious in the story. Maybe we have a cultural issue here? *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
Besides, another point of such a protest is the obscenely high price of food for the rich, which could have fed dozens to thousands of poor with 'normal' food.
There's a thought that hadn't occurred to me: modern industrial farming reduces the price of subsistence for workers to a very low level, reducing the theoretical minimum wage that they can be paid. If base-line food was more expensive you'd have to pay the poor more or they'd starve, fail to reproduce and you'd run out of workers. Or at least have to outsource overseas.
I'm not entirely sure what that protest is meant to achieve. It wasn't clear from the article I read.
If it is a per capita fifty times bigger problem, then that not many can afford it is not really an argument. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
If (say) 1% of people can afford to have a fish shipped to them then that is a much smaller problem than the 99% of people having Thai chicken fillets shipped to them. Which problem do you solve first? Which is actually a problem?
If producing luxury foods for one person wastes 50 times more resources than producing cheap factory food for one person, and 1% buy luxury foods while the rest eats factory food, then it's 50 to 99 - two big problems. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
On the other hand, I see I led the debate off-track with ill-chosen words. The issue wasn't really food, it was social differences, and who benefits and who enjoys what is produced. I translate some more from the letter of the guys:
...Superflex is familiar with all kinds of work contracts: part-time, full-time, practicum. All the stress led to a welcome mutation of his molecules. Operaistorix survived the last few years with an unemployment module. Thanks to his unheard-of agility, he managed so far to avoid visits by the Labor Office and One-Euro-Jobs. The mutant body of SpiderMum was born somewhere between daycare, unpaid and paid cleaning. Cleaning agents and washing mop turn into weapons in her hand. Santa Guevara detracts himself from controls and disappears without a trace. That way, he manages to escape the boredom of callcenters and university seminars again and again. ...without the abilities of superheroes, it is impossible to survive in the city of millionaires [some Hamburg districts are Germany's top gated communities for the richest]. Altough we produce the richness of Hamburg City, we don't have much of it. This doesn't have to stay so. ...the places of richness are as numerous as the possibilities to take away this richness. One question remains: where do you apply your superhero powers? Simply just come to the Euromaydayparade on 1 May...
...without the abilities of superheroes, it is impossible to survive in the city of millionaires [some Hamburg districts are Germany's top gated communities for the richest]. Altough we produce the richness of Hamburg City, we don't have much of it. This doesn't have to stay so. ...the places of richness are as numerous as the possibilities to take away this richness. One question remains: where do you apply your superhero powers? Simply just come to the Euromaydayparade on 1 May...
