Andrew Gaertner
1 min readJun 15, 2022

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Thank you for responding. In thinking about how much food is available in Ghana I am reminded that in Honduras where I lived for a while there was always plenty of food in the markets. If people were hungry it was for lack of money. I suppose capitalism works because it forces people to work as labor in order to get money to buy food and pay rent. That is where the moral issue comes in. Trevelyan looked at the poor Irish and said they must not want to work and called poverty a moral failure. Of course the whole system was stacked against the Irish tenants and to blame their morals is like blaming Black people’s morals for higher rates of incarceration in today’s USA. Just wrong. I think we need to move beyond hands-off capitalism for housing, food, and transportation. Thanks again, I always appreciate your perspective.

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Andrew Gaertner
Andrew Gaertner

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