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> Almost no one is starving in america

In 2013, 49.1 million Americans lived in food insecure households, including 33.3 million adults and 15.8 million children. [1]

> Those people living on the dole are living better than like 90% of the human race that has ever existed

How is this a metric we should be measuring on?

[1] http://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/impact-of-hu...



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