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The City that Ended Hunger

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22 pointsjoubee14 comments

Though I'm loathe to admit it, some of these are very clever programs. Don't know about the "People's Restaurants," though. I guess they are probably just soup kitchens with a more totalitarian name.

EDIT: It seems like making food a basic right is incidental to the fact that they've come up with clever ways to enable entrepreneurs and farmers to sell food.

How does it sound totalitarian if they're not doing anything totalitarian? They really are People's Restaurants which is a nice change from all the laws and countries that use "people's" or "freedom" or other ideas in contradiction to their real purpose.

I believe you have answered your own question. If the headline had read "People's Restaurants to Eliminate Hunger," I would have assumed it was yet another political DPRK story on HN, as opposed to a political Belo Horizonte story on HN.

[Yes, yes, I know: "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" and "hacking the food supply."]

Long term result: A net increase in the quantity of individuals demanding the new basic "right", ultimately making the problem worse.

I really don't get how you reach that conclusion. The project has been running for 7 years and it seems to be mostly free from negative side effects.

This already is enshrined in article 25 of the universal declaration of human rights and as such it is really commendable that this city decided to make it a reality.

It codifies a new premise of society: If you do not labor to maintain your own existence or your offspring's existence, another individual will be force to -- creating a queue of needy people demanding the sacrifice of others.

The end game is exemplified in aid given to rid hunger in Africa, which is an increase in the population that suffers from hunger.

Also the Indian government is trying to get a bill passed which would make food a fundamental right for over 1 billion people.

Here's the original article: http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/food-for-everyone/the-city...

It's a great story, and I'm delighted for the people of this city. I do admit I wonder how well it would scale. If this could work for an entire country, then you'd have something.

It can scale but in a decentralized way. Let each city handle it on its own with the provincial or federal governments filling whatever gaps remain.

Seems to me the ideal way to scale is to use the 'neighborhood' as the granular unit. Combine this with a loose federation and you could cover as large an area as need be...

See criticisms in previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1404507

Not hacker news.

Sorry davidw it's off Topic but I thought it was something that was worth talking about and others might be interested :)

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