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Originally Posted by de captain
Is anyone in the US dying of thirst or starvation during any of these disasters?
It takes at least a month to die of starvation, and there is always water available in these disasters - which involve intense rain and flooding. So no, few people dying of either except those already sick.
Do you think your country's response to Katrina was a good one? Do you think the people there had what they needed? Do you think the government and charities supplied their needs, let alone their wants?
How is a guy able to buy generators, drive them down and sell them for 2x normal price if people have what they need?
Being days, let alone weeks without decent food or electricity or fuel isn't fun for people. You think that's a "solved problem". And people like you are often the bureaucrats in charge. Human wants go unmet because "hey, no one is dying of thirst or starvation! And at least we thwarted those evil price gougers!"
This was exactly the mindset that kept a billion peasants poor and miserable in communist hellholes like Russia or China. "They have food, they have water, they have rudimentary shelter, what more does a true communist need?"
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It seems to me that if you can have 3 large scale disasters in short succession with millions of people displaced and nobody is dying from thirst or starvation that the problem is largely solved and you're trying to fix a problem that doesn't exist.
So if no one is dying from thirst or starvation, all is cool and there's no problem to solve? You should apply for a job at FEMA. Also, never donate to the third world. Virtually no one dies of thirst and starvation except in occasional famines, so there's no problem to solve imo.