Think about urbanization in the developing world. Why are people choosing to move to the city?

Well it's simple. Capitalism. Even the great proponent of the "third way," the man that was president at the release of Fukuyama's "End of History," Bill Clinton has admitted the treatment of crops globally as a world commodity instead of an individual right to survival has created the food crisis in the global south.

You see there used to be these people called "subsistence farmers." And we thought, "no good. They must join the global market." So instead of allowing them to grow what they needed to survive we subsidized and encouraged them to place all their eggs in one basket. Vast garlic fields in China going to waste at a small drop in demand in the west.

So what happens? They lose their land, a corporate entity buys it for pennies, and the former farmer becomes a slave laborer in a sweatshop in the midst of some slum for some other corporate giant feeding the consumption of the west.

This has happened the world over.

Economic opportunity, which they hope will be more substantial than trying to live off of the land, especially in an era of mega-farms run by corporations.