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From a production viewpoint, that's certainly possible for several sectors. World agriculture produces enough food that every human could have a 2700 calorie diet, which is excessive for sedentary occupations.

So which is the sin here, that some people die of hunger or that others die of obesity ?

The sin is in the coexistence of these two circumstances.

That would be nice! Though I'm a bit skeptical. Big business has most of the tools at the moment and their trend is to want to get more and pay less (i.e. more hours for less pay).

Rather than 20 full-time jobs we need to fill them with 40 part-time jobs and then those 40 people work part-time on other interests (their own start up, works of passion, another job to bring in the money, etc.)

Unfortunately there are still returns to scale. To stay on top of everything in your field|industry|organization might take 20 hours a week so some jobs aren't manageable on a part time basis.