However, even more importantly, this doesn’t actually help with solving the problem of delivering goods to people who actually need them because those are who can least afford them.

It does. The goods that people tend to need are commodities that are cheap enough that they're given away.

No one but anorexics starve in my country.

away while people are literally starving on the streets.

Please find some documentation that supports the extraordinary hypothesis that people are starving on the streets. Of all the problems that we have, that's just not one of them. No one starves, few go hungry and never unless their personalities compel them to avoid welfare.

Find another criticism. There are real ones, real ones that are pretty extreme even by my standards, ones compatible with your ideology. This one's just fiction.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

And the alternative you guys offer is huge levels of deprivation, underground/gray/black markets, and so on.

Having actually grown up in USSR, I can tell you that the levels of deprivation I've seen living in the west are far greater.

It does. The goods that people tend to need are commodities that are cheap enough that they’re given away.

Except that they're not given away. Poverty and need are rampant under capitalism.

Please find some documentation that supports the extraordinary hypothesis that people are starving on the streets.

Literally linked you a source. Here's what things in US look like https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/31/us/food-insecurity-30-million-census-survey/index.html

This one’s just fiction.

Ironic that you're telling somebody who has actual lived experience under both systems. You're a victim of propaganda, and it's very sad to see how close minded you are.