And you forgot: slavery. Sparta basically enslaved surrounding hellenic population ( so called hellots ). Many Athenian politicians were quite disgusted with the harsh conditions Spartans enforced on hellots. Basically they maintained "population control" by slaining hellots en masse when their population grew too much ( Spartans were somewhere around of 10-15% of their dominion )

The shitstain owner of the local car lot that is using his friends on the city council to change local zoning laws so he can force his competition out and buy their land is EXACTLY the stripe of shitstain I want to mulch.

So it means you never lived in communist or socialist countries. I did

I am really surprised that still somebody goes to cinema. C'mon buying 40 inch monitor and good sound system is not that expensive. You will soon good ROI if you go to the cinema frequently

Just take a look where most of these rare raw material resources exist and note what attitude these countries have to the environmental cause. Zero, none. Russia, China, Africa https://www.dw.com/en/how-chinas-mines-rule-the-market-of-critical-raw-materials/a-57148375 I bet they won't mind destroying whole local ecosystem just to get extra bucks Europe needs

It's not semantics as you try to portray. It's the real life case that simply negates your "solution" if any.

I dislike dividing people into owning and worker classes. If the workers save up their earnings to make their living in the old age, does it make then "owner class"? Should they stay penniless in your world vision? It's the utopian world you propose

Schopenhauer was right even before the internet came :-)

Except from gulags where they were starving to death. I come from the " behind the iron curtain" countries. Gulags are not myths and the prisoners not punished with death pebalty should be fed with at least minimal provisions making them able to survive ( I am not against either death penalty or work in prisons )

How do they force them? Just curious so asking

You can always fork firefox. People used to use website not requiring javascript at all and it worked well. Some people still use even w3m f.e. when graphics card driver goes bad after update and they need to watch some docs on the internet. Most current browser have most features you would ever need

The reasons behind it are quite simple:

1. Food spoils very quickly, so mostly if you don't consume it locally you need to quickly export which is quite expensive. Very often it's simply cheaper to utilize it for example as fertilizer.
2. Storing food is costly.
3. The best option would be not to produce an excess of food but 1) demand is hard to predict 2) crops output is hard to predict 3) for legal reasons like contractual obligations it's better to produce more than less.
4. Current markets are hardly free: see https://www.history.com/news/government-cheese-dairy-farmers-reagan