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[flabort]

Obviously the solution is to increase food distribution 

It's a problem of distribution.

This simple sentence. There's enough food, there's enough wealth, there's not enough distribution. And if there's not enough, it means it's quantified. Which means we can use the 1% superpower on it.

[WillowLuman]

Decrease food prices!

You are aware this would cause a famine right?

This suggestion was predicated on your claim that there was more than enough to go around (with the accompanying implication that what starvation there is arises from poverty). Decrease the price and the surplus actually gets eaten by the people who need it but couldn't previously afford it.

In most places where there is famine, it's not so much that people cannot afford food, it's that there simply isn't much (or any) food around.

Which side of the debate are you arguing for? I can't tell.

When I say there's a problem with food distribution, I don't mean that all over the world there's a bunch of rich people that own all the food and don't let other people have any, I mean that a few countries produce so much food that their citizenry struggle against obesity, while there are other countries that, for various reasons, do not produce enough food to feed their people. Food is a difficult thing to export, due to its perishable nature.

[Bohandas]

OK.

Decrease spoilage then.

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On an unrelated note, I'd also increase the world's supplies of gold and diamonds. I want to see them become worthless.

[Leafsnail]

Your power can easily solve most of the problems the world faces, there's no need to be spiteful.

[WillowLuman]

OK.

Decrease spoilage then.

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On an unrelated note, I'd also increase the world's supplies of gold and diamonds. I want to see them become worthless.

While it would make several people's fortunes/investments/jobs worthless (a major dick move), it might also remove the stranglehold of a certain diamond cartel from the governments of several countries and make gold and diamonds more widely available for industrial purposes (diamonds for all sorts of things, gold for electronics).

[Bohandas]

I'm sick of crackpots claiming that gold is the one true measure of value and find the very idea that there could even be such a thing - whether it be gold or anything else - offensive.

[Bohandas]

Another good option would be to take a page from Futurama's playbook and make interstellar travel feasible by increasing the speed of light.

EDIT:
Another unrelated possibility:

Proportion of MPAA/RIAA scumbags who DON'T have ebola...decrease by 1%
Rinse and repeat.
Attempting to get SOPA passed was an unforgiveable sin.

[Bohandas]

(Oops Triple post. Sorry!)

EDIT:
might as well fill this post with something since its here. Have any of you ever read the book Half Magic? It too deals with a theme relating to fantastic powers in smaller than optimal  proportions.

[Neonivek]

Food only is in abundance when prices are high because food is too cheap.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

Decrease entropy by 1%.

Seriously is this thread secretly the doom the universe thread?
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It is now



Joke answer- increase the amount of hydrogen in the sun by 1%


Real answer- increase amount of world total food production per farm by one percent
That would add quite a bit of food into the basket right?

You are aware we make enough food RIGHT NOW to feed the world right?

Yes but the richer nations eat it all, if more food existed it would be cheaper and therefore be easier for the poor to get

[miauw62]

Make all earth on earth 1% more fertile?
Make all food spoil 1% slower?

[Sergarr]

Make all earth on earth 1% more fertile?
Make all food spoil 1% slower?

Increase the GDP of all countries by 1%?

[Helgoland]

Make all earth on earth 1% more fertile?
Make all food spoil 1% slower?

Increase the GDP of all countries by 1%?

In real terms, of course.

[miauw62]

If you kill one percent of all people in a country, won't that increase the gdp by 1%? It IS per capita, after all.

[Graknorke]

the corn that we mostly grow for corn syrup

People grow corn specifically for a shitty waste product?