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> The point here isn't to say that Bezos will buy a billion baguettes, but it is show to show that he could buy 90 billion baguettes and feed every single person on the planet several times over. There are only a few people who could do this. And, of course, they won't.

Because, even if they did, buying baguettes won't fees the hungry; acquiring food isn't the hard/expensive part, distributing it is. And it's not hard in a “We know how to make it work but have insufficient funds dedicated” way, but in a “we don't know how to do it effectively at any cost” way.




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