Freedom from want raised questions about labour and food supply

Roosevelt's Four Freedoms supplied a moral vocabulary for a war he hoped Americans would support. Freedom of speech and worship were easy to state, while freedom from want raised questions about how food would be produced and paid for. The objection developed here is that guaranteeing provision through compulsory unpaid labour would conflict with the rejection of slavery. It also leaves questions about who owns productive equipment and pays to create it. Subsistence farming is rejected in this argument as too inefficient to remove want. The proposed economic route is to produce food at scale while supporting enough employment and purchasing power for people to obtain it. These are criticisms of turning an aspiration into a guarantee, rather than a detailed account of Roosevelt's proposed policies.