average lifespan of the elite roman class?

[antisocialmunky]

Well, actually modern agriculture produces too much food that overeating is the number one dietary problem today as you might have heard. I mean when agriculture produces SO much food that food prices have to be kept artificially high by subsidies and there are government bought stores of extra food just rotting somewhere, its not an issue of food supply. I know people in the EU are all too aware of this.

And while quick relief is sometimes needed when local food supply is a problem, the food supply is available and transportation is available. Its just whether the government of the victims is willing to let the aid read the people. Remember what happened in Burma(Myamar) when that typhoon hit?

It was like during colonialism when Ireland was producing potatoes for EXPORT during the Great Potato Famine. Asia was EXPORTING grain during the great famines of the early 20th century. The colonial governments had the power to release food to the people but were making profit instead.

Compare this today to a government official that seizes food at the docks and sells it on the black market or a government so inefficient that it lets the aid rot at the docks during the crisis.