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capitalist made famine (infosec.pub)
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[–] mr_anny@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 hours ago

Yes. People tend to use it as if it was some natural or biblical born disaster.

But no.

Famine is descriptive word for outcome of mechanics in play to produce scarcity of food.

It literally means hunger.