As a superpower, the United States is also one of the world's major grain exporters, and its economic aggregate last year was still the largest in the worldBut behind the prosperity, 30 million people in the United States suffer from hungerBasically, if you have reached 1 10 percent of the total population of the United States, and are blessed with unique conditions for agricultural development and a highly developed farmer economy, why do tens of millions of Americans still have enough to eat?What's the secret behind this?
The food crisis in the United States has intensified
Can you believe it?The United States, the world's largest agricultural country, is also facing a "food crisis", and 30 million people are afraid of facing a "hunger cliff".
Overseas Network recently cited data from a CBS study that more and more Americans are starving in the United States due to the reduction of social benefits and the soaring of daily goods**.
Agriculture in the United States is very developed and highly mechanized, so the number of people engaged in agriculture is only 2% of the total population. These 2% of agricultural workers have made the United States the world's largest agricultural exporter.
The fact that 30 million people in the country do not have enough to eat in the country is a large agricultural exporter, and this completely different phenomenon also indicates that the current society in the United States is very divided.
Why, then, does the United States, with its highly developed farmer economy and massive export of food crops, still have thousands of Americans underfed?Will you feel hungry?
Sitting on the unique conditions for agricultural development and a highly developed farmer economy, why do tens of millions of Americans still have not enough to eat?
This question must be the most confusing to everyone.
If you know a little about the U.S. economy, you can find this question easy to understand for the thousands of hungry people in the United States.
In the 30s of the last century, the phenomenon of pouring milk in the United States,Behind this is the "self-interest" of the US economy, which is ultimately the beneficiary of not the majority of Americans, but the Wall Street elite closest to the dollar printing machine.
This means that wealth is in the hands of a small elite in the United States, and for the majority of wage earners, real wages remain largely unchanged.
Rising wages can't outpace stubborn inflation, and about 40 people in a survey of 12,000 people released by the Federal Reserve a few years ago can't come up with $400 in cash for emergency use, or need to borrow money to buy things or emergencies.
For the majority of ordinary people, not only are they responsible for the unfair distribution of wealth, but they also have to pay for the debt of the American economy.
Looking at the recently announced size of the debt, the debt that every citizen of the United States bears for this is about 9$390,000.
However, the rich Americans who can afford to choose their lifestyles are not willing to take responsibility for the debt of the American economy, which is why the rich have fled.
Those who are wealthy will flee because of their state's high debt, and are unwilling to pay for the debt indirectly.
More and more Americans are facing hunger, and this is the price that the US debt model will pay, printing money, fueling the economy, and finally hurting the people at the bottom.
Why is hunger coming to America?
In most people's minds, they would think that it is not evenly distributed, and this is indeed the case.
In the United States, the richest 0The 1% and the poorest 90%+ have the same amount of assets.
In the face of the country's debt crisis, the wealthy Americans, who have more options, are not willing to pay for it, and even have to rub the oil through the cracks.
Those large-capital enterprises take advantage of the convenience of their own more familiar and bank operations to exploit loopholes in the system to take advantage of the loopholes and divide up the funds.
Individuals and small businesses who are really in need of assistance sometimes have a hard time getting help. The aid money has not been well spent, and the problems faced by the regions and industries that need it most remain unresolved.
Those small and medium-sized enterprises that look inconspicuous and are on the verge of bankruptcy, although they cannot be compared with large enterprises, contribute no small amount to employment, and more than half of all jobs in the United States are provided by them.
Last year, the Federal Reserve continued to raise interest rates, which made it even worse for small businesses to operate when they were already struggling to operate.
In this case, social unemployment will increase, prices will still be high, and it will be easy to return to poverty.
In addition,The American middle class has the Xi of eating food, the situation of no savings, and various taxes on mortgages and car loans are world-famous, and once they lose their jobs and have no income, they will not be able to repay the bank money immediately, and they will almost certainly go bankrupt.
If you can't find a job or your loan is in arrears for a long time, the bank will stop the loss and apply for a judicial auction, and the unemployed will not only be cleaned overnight, but will also be saddled with debts that may not be paid off for a lifetime, or even have to wander.
Ordinary Americans are almost abnormal under the double torture of inflation and unemployment, and the tax system is still trying to find peas in the legs of mosquitoes and quails.
America's billionaires, on the other hand, pay little to no taxes.
The United States, as a capital "paradise", is extremely friendly to the rich, has a large number of legal tax avoidances, and its real wealth growth is taxed at a much lower rate than that of the working class.
Biden has no ability to take action against industrial monopolies and financial giants, so he can only simply and rudely levy taxes directly on the heads of ordinary people.
Finance as a game for the rich,The powerful consortium will use its capital advantage to coerce ** and seek benefits for their own fields, while the poor in the United States have no connections and capital, and there are not many opportunities to turn around in the relationship-oriented society of the United States.
The working class in the United States not only has to face 10%-37% personal income tax, but also the pressure of medical insurance and social security, and more importantly, there is no means of tax avoidance.
In the year 25Under the beautiful GDP figure of 46 trillion US dollars, it is the carnival of financial giants, but it is the blood and tears of small business owners.
The United States, where everything can be "financialized".
In fact, the hunger of Americans is not due to lack of food, after all, the country discards an average of 100 billion pounds of food every year, 100 billion pounds of food, worth more than $408 billion, which can cook 130 billion mealsBut the financialization of food has made people suffer from hunger when there is enough to eat.
The financialization of grain is a cross-section derived from the high degree of financialization of the real economy in developed capitalist countries.
In layman's terms,Food, which is a necessity for survival, is lying in the grain market, and is not distributed to the grain store to fill people's stomachs.
The rich who play with the price of food and the poor who can't afford to eat, although the poor and the rich live on American soil, live very different lives.
After all,Under American capitalism, the rich are not responsible for the hunger of the poor. It is the use of food as the object of speculation and profit, rather than feeding everyone, and food has also become a highly complex financial derivative in the international community.
The United States issued a large number of additional US dollars, resulting in violent fluctuations in international food**, and the sharp fluctuations in food prices digested the liquidity of overproduction in the US-led countries.
All these reflect that the operation of the grain market is detached from the physical level, and the food that people rely on for survival has been artificially created with "financial attributes".
American scholar Frederick Kaufman also mentioned in "Food Bubbles: How Wall Street Pushed Millions of People into Hunger and Got Out".
Food became more commercialized and became an investment, like oil, gold and silver, or other commodities with an index. The more you invest, the more expensive food will be, and those who can't afford it will go hungry. ”
As a necessity of life, grain should have a very low market elasticity, but under the speculation of international grain merchants, sometimes in just a few months, it has doubledAnd things like pencils, notebooks, clothes and other non-life-saving necessities,** basically no fluctuations.
The current famine and food surplus in the United States coexist with this magical phenomenon that has surpassed the problem of agriculture.
The profit-seeking of capital and the inflated price of food will be a huge security hazard in the United States, the poor can no longer afford to buy rations, and small farmers may also be forced to take huge production risks because of unequal market information.
On the other hand, domestic,We will always complain about the high prices after all kinds of purchases, and we can't afford to buy houses and cars in first-tier cities, but we don't have much dissatisfaction with the price of basic food.
Take the most common rice on the market as an example, ten years ago you could buy a pound of rice for 2 yuan, and today you can still buy the same amount of rice with a slightly higher **.
When it comes to having enough to eat, we never worry about it.