[Serious] The Post-Technological World.

[Yonadav]

You're discussing the troubles with humanitarian aid, which are also very real.  

I was commenting on why food doesn't get to those places as a matter of routine business decisions.  In many cases, they actually grow the shit but can't afford to buy it.  Not because they have no money, but because someone else has more money.  Not because it would be sold at a loss with respect to the cost to produce, but a loss with respect to their expected retail elsewhere.

Oddly enough, there's a problem that would go away in our post tech world.

OK, that's a valid one. The cases that I can think of where people grow food while starving are cases in which foreign corporations own the land, and the only benefit that the indigenous folks get from their productivity is from wages paid for working on the plantations. For example, the banana plantations in Honduras.