It’s August 25th, 2025 and I’m making a prediction. People are going to starve this winter. The winter of 2025/2026 is going to have Americans starving to death: some on the streets, some in their homes. It may be me. Or you. Or that sister/brother/cousin/friend that you lost track of years ago might be the unlucky one to starve to death this winter.

This is not a risky prediction to make: people starved to death last winter, and the winter before, and every winter, at least as long as I’ve been alive. Hundreds of people die of “exposure” in big cities every winter, and those people were also not getting enough food – they are starving. Little old folks who die alone in their homes are often malnourished. When a person is starving, it increases the chance of dying of exposure – that’s the way human bodies work.

In America, each year we have increasing numbers of old folks who are slowly starving to death in their homes. And other folks who get kicked out of their homes and end up starving on the street. Record numbers of people have been evicted over the last four years, and while many of them have gotten back on their feet, many of them have not. Those people are dying on the street, if they are not already dead.

This is not just a problem in “liberal cities” in the country – it’s a problem all across the United States. It’s a problem caused by bad economics. Bad economics is starving your fellow Americans, and it just might starve you too.

Modern economists don’t really pay much attention to food. They’ll say it’s an important category, but there’s little actual statistical tracking of the food chain. This is in comparison to statistics about jobs and GDP and the stock market – these statistics are tracked very closely, and written about extensively.

Modern economists have mostly forgotten that human beings have needs. Humans die very quickly without fresh water, air, and food. We also die quickly without waste disposal, shelter from the elements, or warm clothing. These (and others) are human needs, and people die when they don’t have their needs taken care of.

For economics, death is just another statistic.

Nobody likes to think about death, so it’s a statistic that nobody wants to discuss. Go do an internet search for the city you live in and “homeless deaths 2024” – you’ll probably find out more than you wanted to know. No matter which city you look up, you’ll find out that the homelessness problem is the worst it’s ever been.

The economists keep telling us that the economy is doing great. How is it possible that people are starving to death in record numbers when the economy is doing great?

Economists have a limited view of the world through statistics. Here in the real world, it’s incredibly difficult to find a good job. Most workers are underpaid for their work while also being overworked. The AI bubble is about to collapse, and I’m not sure how many IT collapses we’ve had now.

The second order effects from an IT collapse are really worrying. In the wake of IT collapse, IT jobs become scarce at the same time as the stock market drops. Boomers who have been holding off on downsizing are now motivated to get out of their houses due to shrinking retirement. Unfortunately, good paying IT jobs are scarce, so few people can afford to buy those homes, and real estate prices begin to drop.

Economists do have a word for what happens next: stagflation.

Unfortunately, this comes on the heels of a terrible tariff policy, which will make the problem much, much worse. Economists are starting to pay attention to these problems, and that’s good.

The problem they’re not paying attention to is food. Food costs in the United States were significantly higher than they are in most other “developed” countries, and that was before we began running a purge on farm workers.

If food costs are already this high in the summer, while we still have an abundance of fresh food growing in our fields, how bad is it going to get in the winter, when the fields are bare?

Of course the wealthy will be perfectly fine, they can pay the money to import goods. They’ll complain about the price of caviar and fresh strawberries, but they’ve got the money, so why not spend it?

Meanwhile, the homeless population will continue to get bigger. Tent cities will start popping up everywhere. We’ll remember what a “hooverville” is. There will be lines outside soup kitchens. Many of these people will be old, and they will starve to death in incredible numbers.

That’s the path that the President of the United States has set us on. It’s just an acceleration of the path we were already on – I told you at the beginning that this has been happening for decades – but the current economic policies are going to make it so much worse.

The only solution is to take power away from these idiots, as quickly as we can, and make a huge shift towards taking care of each other and building community. If you would like to call that socialism, then I’m happy to be a socialist.

Modern capitalist economics has gotten us to a place where old folks are starving to death on the street, in every city in America, no matter how big the city or what color the mayor’s tie is. They are starving to death in small towns in Texas, and they are starving to death in Austin and they are starving to death in Portland and in Chicago and in New Orleans and in Phoenix and in Tampa and in Myrtle Beach and in every other fucking city in the country.

People are starving to death.

Yeah, it’s time for some fucking socialism.