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He didn't fear anybody. He had those people so scared they had to kill him. They couldn't buy him, they couldn't frighten him, they couldn't reach him.

- Malcolm X on Patrice Lumumba

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It's demonstrably true.

Scarcity is man made.

In fact, most "overconsumption" that consumers are said to be engaging in to the detriment of the planet is actually massive overproduction.

A study from a decade or more ago found that if we stopped making T shirts today, there existed enough already produced and not already sold or destroyed that if market trends stayed the same, a new T shirt would not need be made for the next SEVEN YEARS. That's how long it'd take to sell out.

Over 40% of all produce grown in the US is thrown away before it makes it to distribution, most commonly for appearance issues.

And I remember back when the statistics were that there existed five empty homes per homeless person in the US. Not per family, per person.

The scarcity has been artificial for at least a good 20 years now, if not longer.

Some of you grew up in manufactured poverty maintained entirely for the sake of the political power of the wealthy.

Not one of us is poor because of other poor people. We are all poor because the wealthy choose to keep us poor.