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Because the current economic systems of the world don't compensate food producers otherwise. Under capitalism, farmers still need money to buy things that aren't food so they're incentivised to sell their products for profit, like anything else.
Hell even the government makes you pay money for water, electricity, and other utilities, if ever there is something that should be free.
Why do we collectively agree to these playground rules?
Because the government has a monopoly on violence
Does it really? Why not us?
because the government will kill you
So we should kill the government in self defense.
Why does the government get no consequences? Is that true? So even if the government starts killing us, we shouldn't do anything?
Because these questions need to be answered, the fate of our specie kinda depends on it. I guess it's not really a big deal.
"Thereupon my visitor, very calmly and coolly, said to me: "Why are you so deeply opposed to the disappearance of the human race?" I am sure that as little as a century ago no one would have so lightly made a statement of this kind. It is the statement of a man who has striven in vain to attain an equilibrium within himself and has more or less lost hope of succeeding. It is the expression of a painful solitude and isolation from which so many people are suffering in these days. What is the cause? Is there a way out?"
No, but i'm wondering why you seem to think that the government has the entire monopoly on violence, and face no consequences for comitting violence. Because that's not the truth, we have the monopoly on violence, but for some reason we agree to these unfair playground rules where we let the bullies win every time instead of punching them in the nose.
I'll be less vague and more specific - Why do YOU agree to these playground rules, where the government gets to commit violence with zero consequence?