[hutzlibu]

"Why does there seem to be so many people sitting around? Surely with so much manpower available, there are way to make them productive on a large scale?"

Yeah well, how to organize society? Let it organize on their own, free market, etc. - or organize it from top with commands.

In theory we have the first and they have the latter. But it is never that black and white.

Even if some try to paint it like that. And I doubt that there are really starving, "just" that it is hard to get meat for example. Only the very basics. So you still can get fat with rice and beans, but still suffer from malnutrition.

.. and "Revolutionary Kellogg's" ... I found quite hillarious.