[cloudfifty]

> Feeding people is 100% the priority, which is why the vast majority of people in the first world have access to food primarily produced by a predominately private food industry.

This isn't true when feeding people is the _100% priority_, like in a big crisis, as a major war. The market flies out of the window and doesn't return before after the war is over since it just can't reliably produce goods in way that is appropriate for a crisis.

When the crisis is over however, the game of profit based production is restarted again.

[bhupy]

No disagreements re: crisis / war. That's typically when states of emergency are conventionally recommended.