@AlexanderKingsbury@mastodon.social 1. Yes, it's regulated capitalism. Laissez-faire ancap is not the only form of capitalism...

2. 9% (1/11) per the WHO https://www.who.int/news/item/24-07-2024-hunger-numbers-stubbornly-high-for-three-consecutive-years-as-global-crises-deepen--un-report

3. There are 5 AES countries. China, the largest by far, has a hunger rate below 2.5% (https://doi.org/10.1002/aepp.13476). Vietnam is at 6.4% (https://www.globalhungerindex.org/vietnam.html). Laos is slightly behind USA at 14.8 (https://vientianetimes.org.la/freeContent/FreeConten56_Over_1_y23.php). Cuba is at 12.8% according to the US govt. (https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/pub-details/?pubid=110175) and obviously there are no reliable stats for DPRK (no, Park "this was once revealed to me in a dream" Yeon-Mi is not reliable) due to its isolation, although I would imagine it struggles compared to less-heavily sanctioned countries. So the AES average, excluding DPRK since it has no stats, is only 0.1% higher than the global average. And still much better than USA.