• brown567@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    4 hours ago

    I have the “radical”, “Communist” opinion that if you’re going to demand somebody stay in the same place for 6+ hours you should feed them.

    From a purely logistic standpoint, requiring each parent to provide food for their child is an embarrassingly inefficient process. Every part of feeding people benefits massively from an economy of scale!

    • Broad nutritional decisions can be made by a professional, instead of thousands of busy parents with varying levels of nutritional education and understanding
    • Procurement and preparation of food can be done on an industrial scale, permitting the use of equipment that would be impractical for preparing single-child portions, and would be prohibitively expensive for families, and allowing the work to be done by a handful of dedicated chefs instead of–once again–thousands of busy adults
    • Distribution would occur in close proximity to preparation, in a situation where the children are already gathered in one place, instead of relying on the most ridiculous supply line I’ve ever heard of: dividing the food into meal-sized portions and entrusting each to one of thousands of children for transportation

    If we want to come at it from a position of Christianity, feeding those he taught was something Jesus saw as worth the working of a miracle on a couple occasions

    • Matthew 14:15-21
    • Matthew 15:32-38
    • Mark 6:37-44
    • Mark 8:1-9
    • Luke 9:13-17
    • John 6:5-13
    • resting_parrot@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      10 hours ago

      According to govfacts.org one tomahawk missile costs between $1.75 and $4 million.

      Estimates for universal free school lunch are harder to find, but these two sources say $30 billion and $27 billion.

      That means roughly 7000 to 17000 missiles to one year of universal free school lunch. Of course, this does not take into effect the other benefits of universal free lunch. Right off the bat, there would be a reduced administrative cost in tracking and verifying free lunch eligibility. Then there are things like increased attendance and focus in class which lead to long term benefits of a better educated person and more.

      It is widely reported that the US has used more than 850 tomahawk missiles in the first four weeks of this war. That means the cost of the war in missiles alone is somewhere between $1.5 and $3.4 billion.