Late to the party, but...<p>The problem with argument&#x27;s like Bruenig&#x27;s is that they double as fully-general counterarguments against the entire concept of a price system, and in favor of strict price controls.  You could make his exact points against e.g. allowing some foods to be priced more than others, with the same points about &quot;the poor value the food more, it would go to a random population rather than just the rich&quot;, etc.<p>There is too much wrong with that argument to point to any one thing, but suffice to say, even the most pro-poor nations reject it.<p>That&#x27;s why every sane nutrition policy is more like &quot;tax people, give the poor money to buy food&quot; rather than &quot;all food [appropriately quantified and defined] should be cheap enough for the poor to subsist on, and if you want to sell any food at all, you must sell it at that rate&quot;.