People don't seem to realize this, but during the Great Depression, food and other goods existed, but were destroyed because noone was buying them(because they couldn't afford them.) This isn't new. This is how capitalism has always operated. https://twitter.com/ShaunGalNews/status/1245829203385143296

FDR paid farmers millions of dollars to destroy crops by ploughing them into the ground, kill MILLIONS of pigs, this is not like some kind of shocking new development it's ancient