Profit Feeds While Children Starve

Not because there isn’t enough to go around, but because we have allowed greed to become the guiding principle of human life. Every day, children in third-world countries starve while billionaires flaunt yachts, private jets, and entire fleets of luxury cars. Every day, people die from preventable illnesses, from hunger, from lack of clean water and education—all while the rich hoard more wealth than they could ever use in a hundred lifetimes.

IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE...

Excess is held in check by conscience.

Privilege is balanced by responsibility.

Abundance is shared, not hoarded.

No parent must choose which child eats and which goes hungry, because the rest of us refused to look away.

This is not utopia — it’s justice. And it is not impossible. It only requires the courage to put human life above profit, compassion above consumption, and generosity above greed.

HUMAN GREED HIDES BEHIND POLITE WORDS

Growth, efficiency, market value. But those words mean something real: they mean a child’s medicine costs more than her parents will ever earn. They mean crops are burned to keep prices high while people starve beside the fields.

ITS EASY TO BLAME POVERTY

As if it were a natural disaster, but poverty is man-made. It is the direct result of systems built to protect wealth, not life. While one child drinks from a puddle contaminated with sewage, another child in another country throws away bottled water after a single sip. Corporations post record profits while families live on less than the cost of a cup of coffee a day.

The systems designed to serve humanity now serve the wealthy elite, leaving millions to suffer, fight for scraps, and die in silence. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the rest of us look away, distracted by advertisements everywhere you turn, for things we don’t need and an abundance of luxuries we are told will make us happy.

Money means more than people

When a child dies of starvation.

When a CEO earns in an hour what a farmer earns in a lifetime.

When a child’s coffin costs less than the coffee on an executive’s desk.

When a child is forced to endure hard labour instead of playing with toys.

These are lives being stolen, futures being crushed — and it is happening right now as you're reading this.

This is NOT just a nice cause.

This is NOT just sad.

This is NOT just bad luck.

This is a moral imperative and it is unacceptable.

This is a reflection of a system that tolerates enormous suffering for profit + convenience.

The rich thrive; the innocent die

Pharmaceutical companies patent life-saving drugs and sell them at prices no one in poor countries can afford. They say it’s about innovation, about “recouping research costs.” But how much is enough? How many children must die waiting for a medicine that already exists? Food companies throw away millions of tons of food every year to protect prices and keep markets stable. Meanwhile, millions starve. Not because there isn’t food — **but because there isn’t profit in feeding them.**

When profit comes before morality, human life becomes a number — a statistic, a cost, a liability.

Somewhere, a boardroom decides what a child’s life is worth in dollars. And the answer is always: less than profit.

Profit is elevated above human life. Morality is optional. Compassion is weakness. And the consequences are catastrophic.

When profit becomes God, empathy becomes inefficient and life becomes cheap.

Consider this: a billionaire with dozens of homes, private jets, yachts, fleets of cars—all while somewhere else a child wakes up hungry, a mother cannot afford medicine, a community lacks clean water and education. This is not an inevitable gap—it is a choice. The choice to prioritize extreme luxury and hoarding of wealth.

Around the world, children die of hunger and disease while corporations and ultra‑wealthy individuals accumulate fortunes that dwarf entire national economies. Many of the systems that shape our economy treat people as line‑items, not as human beings.

And yet, the tragedy isn’t just in what’s happening — it’s in what isn’t. Because the world already has enough food, medicine, and resources to ensure no child dies from hunger or thirst. Poverty isn’t a mystery. It’s a mirror — showing us exactly who we are and what we value.

We could choose differently. We could choose people over profit. But first, we have to look the truth in the eye — the truth that every unnecessary death is not fate, but design.

And once you see that, you can’t un see it.

Luxury for some = deprivation for many.

Poverty isn't made. It’s built — by greed, by apathy, by the systems we keep choosing to ignore.

When profit laughs at hunger

Children go to bed hungry, not because their parents don’t care, but because no matter how hard they work, the wages they earn can’t keep up with the cost of living. A mother skips her own meal so her child can have one more spoonful of rice. A father walks miles each day looking for work that will pay just enough to buy rice. Love alone should be enough to keep a family fed — but for millions, it isn’t.

A world that counts coins, not kids

Children die from lack of food, clean water, and medical care—not because resources are scarce, but because the world’s wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few who often treat luxury as a necessity. Owning a hundred cars or multiple yachts is not essential to life, yet it exists alongside extreme deprivation, highlighting a profound moral failure.

The moral cost of this imbalance is staggering

There is a quiet cruelty in the way the world works. Not the cruelty of monsters, but of balance sheets. Somewhere, a life is weighed against a number, and the number always wins. When corporations value profit over people, poverty stops being an accident. It becomes policy. A decision made in fluorescent-lit rooms, far from the sound of crying children. Every price increase, every patent law, every trade restriction — they’re not abstractions. They’re sentences handed down to the poorest and most voiceless among us.

A mother in Yemen walks ten miles for water that makes her children sick. A child in Sudan wastes away because the grain that could feed her was sold elsewhere for a better price. A family in Haiti buries their baby while a pharmaceutical CEO receives a bonus large enough to feed a village.

We are told this is how the world must be — that competition breeds innovation, that markets correct themselves. But markets don’t have hearts. They don’t grieve.

They don’t look into a child’s eyes and see fear.

Injustice is favoured

We live in a world where

Money matters more than mercy, where “growth” matters more than life.
Factories poison rivers that children drink from. Workers on the other side of the world sew clothes for a few cents so we can buy them cheap and toss them out.
Entire economies depend on underpaid labor — and when that labor belongs to a child, we pretend not to see.
Natural‑resource‑rich countries still struggle with poverty because their wealth is extracted rather than invested in local welfare.
We celebrate billionaires while mothers bury their babies.
Factories pollute rivers that children drink from.
We measure success in GDP, not in children fed.
Entire economies depend on underpaid labor

Luxury multiples abound in rich nations (and among the ultra‑rich globally), the same systems allow children in low‑income nations to die of malnutrition or lack of clean water. One source notes: “At least a quarter of all children die before their fifth birthday.''

Corporations and monopolies are accelerating inequality. An analysis found that corporate monopolies “are accelerating the privatisation of public services … resulting in segregation, inequality and the erosion of human rights” in less‑wealthy countries.