They need poor people so they can continue the grift. Therefore poverty is good.

On the one hand, I want to think this is a "modest proposal"-style parody article...

On the other hand, it's written by a Leftist, University Prof, from Hawaii, which makes me think xe's entirely serious.

For those of us at the high end of the social ladder, ending hunger globally would be a disaster. If there were no hunger in the world, who would plow the fields? Who would harvest our vegetables? Who would work in the rendering plants? Who would clean our toilets? We would have to produce our own food and clean our own toilets. No wonder people at the high end are not rushing to solve the hunger problem. For many of us, hunger is not a problem, but an asset. . Maybe if you fucking communists actually paid people they would be willing to work in shit jobs. There is no reason in the world a code monkey sitting in an airconditioned office should be paid more than a janitor scrubbing tranny shit off the walls. There is no reason a cop or a teacher should be paid more than someone breaking their back picking tomatoes.

There is a correction coming where the shit jobs will skyrocket in wages. They cannot keep those jobs wages depressed forever by infinite population growth because every environment has a maximum carrying capacity. And when that population stops growing, whether by zeroing immigration or by massive famine because that carrying capacity was reached, there will be incredible inflation as the market corrects and raises wages for jobs that MUST get done. All the useless eaters that participate in the services circle jerk will have to do real labor for once in their lives. The superwealthy will have to spend their wealth on the only thing that costs them money: wages

"Wow, this must be some parody, maybe it's an Onion article or something." Nope, it's fucking real:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/297751609_The_benefits_of_world_hunger

Leftist discovers alot of people, especially third-worlders, won't work if they have the option to eat for free.

A third braincell has finally entered the party.

i feel like i read something like this before