Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, “social justice." - Thomas Sowell
I realize this is twitter and not a well developed thesis, but that just means twitter is a terrible platform to meaningfully engage in nuanced topics. It is a great platform for shallow thinking and insults, though, akin to the excuse, "I have a wonderful proof of this but the margin it too small to contain it."
So no, it's not just a bumpersticker retort. Growing up in a poor south asian country, I was taught to only care about the food on my plate and not be jealous of the food on someone else's plate. That made me work hard at putting more food on my own plate without being jealous and stealing from another's plate.
Any attempt to use the Christian bible to justify massive inequality is a bastardization of Jesus' teachings.
We're not talking about inequality in the sense that people deserve all the same things. Everyone deserves at least to be fed, housed, and taken care of when sick. A society capable of such but unwilling is disgusting.
Maybe you could debate to what degree we could provide for each other. We don't have limitless resources and capabilities. But certainly, we have the ability to provide everyone with clean water, food, and housing at this point.
Everyone who's willing to put a tiny bit of effort can get food and shelter thanks to food banks, shelters etc. Back in my country, we don't have that luxury yet but a lot of religious places are trying their best at providing that.
I am not religious myself but I do think they should play an important role at feeding those who don't have the resources yet.
Once your basic necessity like food and water have been solved, it's up to you to work your way up.
https://hub.jhu.edu/2019/07/18/hunger-and-obesity-jessica-fa...
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-07-17/how-hu...
Long story short is that a better concept isn't starvation, it's food insecurity. More than 10% of Americans are food insecure.
That’s a bad thing? I understand that eating healthy food is important, but if you’re obese, you should go hungry, that’s one part of losing weight.
Decent healthy food is not expensive. I have lived through it myself and plenty of us have.
The first is that politicians are selected by the rich. Since a Supreme Court Ruling (Citizens United), unnamed donors are able to give infinite money to political campaigns. So the rich buy the politicians and then the politicians decrease regulation and increase subsidies for the rich people's companies who elected them.
The second is that there is lots of aid and available resources but the government makes it hard to access this aid. Part of the government (the Republicans) doesn't want this aid to exist so they purposely make the administration of the aid very difficult to get. It becomes a full time job just getting free things creating a cycle of poverty and dependency. You can see the Republican party doing this with the US Postal Service right now. They mess up the program and then claim it doesn't work.
For America to improve, money must be eliminated from elections. We need a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. Next, we must make programs simple and easy to obtain the benefit from. It shouldn't take multiple hours a day to get "free" food. This is why some people support the idea of a universal basic income. It would help the poor the most with the least amount of government overhead.