• Programmer Belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Give a man a loaf of bread and he’ll eat for a day. Modify societal and political structures to allow him to plant wheat for himself and his community and he’ll eat for a lifetime

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      Well, unless he happens to live in one of those societies that collapsed due to extreme natural events that caused crop failure and starvation.

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        Or one of the societies decimated by venereal diseases in large part because the Catholic church didn’t just ban condoms but also claimed (during the height of the 1980s-1990s epidemic) that condom use causes AIDS.

        Or one of the many societies otherwise empoverished as a direct result of the actions of the Catholic and other abusive churches.