[eat_veggies]

You can force starving people into unfair arrangements where the choice is between getting screwed or dying of hunger. You can use the existence of starving people as a threat to keep your work force in line. Sometimes it's not even the starving people that you're making money off of, but their minerals and land.

There are a lot of ways to profit from suffering. And sometimes it's not even about profit—it can just feel so good to have an Other to oppress.

[WalterBright]

> You can force starving people into unfair arrangements where the choice is between getting screwed or dying of hunger.

History shows us that if you want to force starving people to work for you, you also need to shoot the people who refuse. See the Soviet gulags, and the Nazi slave labor camps.

[eat_veggies]

Indeed the arrangement is violent and enforced with terrible violence, and in no way is this incompatible with profits.