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Free food.
How exactly is free food (or free anything) achievable within our current technological level?
We have the technology to do this. What we lack is the economic willingness to actually do it. We are literally letting people starve to death because they don't have the money to buy food. The USA literally pays farmers not to grow food to keep prices artificially high.
If 6.6 Billion could end starvation in 43 countries than I don't see what is stopping us from making food free other than greed.
The Golden Temple in India has fed >50,000 people for free (Langar) every single day for fucking centuries.
We throw out massive amounts of food every year, often because it sits too long and rots.
We have the technology to fix this. Corporations just don't.
If we have the technology to fix this, why arent the corporations using it to make more money on the food they made instead of throwing it away?
First explain to me what technological limits are creating the food scarcity we're experiencing.
Sounds to me like you don't understand the question.
The food scarcity is certainly not due to technological limitations, but we very much can't create food for free. The food you eat is produced by the very hard work of many people, most (probably all) of them severely underpaid. In a fair world it will be these people the ones receiving the fruit of their labor instead of some rich bastards, but I don't think food will be cheaper, maybe even the opposite.
I understand the question, maybe you don't understand how the world works.
We easily produce enough food to feed everyone with our current technology level. Making it free and available to everyone is mostly a logistics and economic problem.