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[Eddy Daze]

[FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Around 7billion people in the world, now considering how much the world produces, roughly how much would each recieve each day if shared out equally?

Food commodities such as Rice, wheat, spuds,nuts,fruit, eggs, sugar,milk, meat, veg, chocolate , fish.

And how much money would each have if all the cash in the world was equally shared? [/FONT]

 

[3.14]

communism was tried and failed,

but if you wanna calculate it

- Wolfram|Alpha

 

[Valjean]

A good part of the world doesn't operate in a capitalistic system, so per-capita income would be less relevant for them than it is for those of us who purchase our commodities.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

communism was tried and failed,

but if you wanna calculate it

- Wolfram|Alpha

Crap - I'd only be able to pay my bills for about 2 months of the year - 3 if I really stretched.

 

[Eddy Daze]

"communism was tried and failed,"

Bout time we gave it another try, may save the starving and help the obese

 

[Zephyr]

If you're looking for successful worldwide socialism, currency will only get in the way.

Also, I just realized we have a facepalm smiley. About time!

 

[Phasmid]

I seem to remember from my school days being told that we produce too much food and a lot of if ends up going to waste.

Further, many households buy too much food when shopping and end up throwing that away as well. I think it's somoething like 3 Wembley stadium fulls of food the UK throws away each year.

 

[3.14]

yes thats true, but what your forgetting is is that we do that on purpose, (its like bank's if one farmer has a problem the exxes will be used to take over the shortage left by that farmer)

 

[Eddy Daze]

How could it be described in a way thats real/graspable...eg the total amount of actual human biomass and the total food produced to feed this biomass, what exaclty would each person have?

 

[Valjean]

Sure, we produce enough food to feed everyone, but distributing it's not economically feasible. Farmers and distributers are capitalists. They want to make a profit. They're unlikely to give it away; even less likely to pay to ship it halfway around the world.
And if we do manage to feed everyone, wouldn't population just increase to the point where population again outstripped supply?

 

[3.14]

http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf

not sure how accurate it is

 

[Shadow Wolf]

communism was tried and failed,

but if you wanna calculate it

- Wolfram|Alpha

On a more technical note, true Marxist Communism, has never been practiced. Rather than the proletarean, a dictator has always been run the show in the nations that we have labeled as "communist."

Sure, we produce enough food to feed everyone, but distributing it's not economically feasible. Farmers and distributers are capitalists. They want to make a profit. They're unlikely to give it away; even less likely to pay to ship it halfway around the world.
And if we do manage to feed everyone, wouldn't population just increase to the point where population again outstripped supply?

That is why I think in today's society, a blending of socialism and capitalism would be best. It would be better with more socialism, so things are more equal. But more money going to the working class than the corporate executives hording it all is a good enough start.

 

[Eddy Daze]

Sure, we produce enough food to feed everyone, but distributing it's not economically feasible. Farmers and distributers are capitalists. They want to make a profit. They're unlikely to give it away; even less likely to pay to ship it halfway around the world.
And if we do manage to feed everyone, wouldn't population just increase to the point where population again outstripped supply?

A-Infos (en) The Great Money Trick - Taken from "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist" by Robert Tressel

(not sure why the names of characters have been changed in this link)

 

[Eddy Daze]

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