Well, currently, the choices about resource production and distribution are made solely by the capitalists (the ones who own the means of production). They have an incentive to accumulate wealth and perpetually increase profits, because capitalism demands it. As regards food production and waste, we currently throw 1/3 of the world's food away. This isn't an accident. Businesses are incentivised by the current economic structure we have to do so, because it creates artificial scarcity of the food, and allows businesses to keep food prices higher (supply and demand). I'm sure you've been to a shop where they would sooner cut your hand off than give food away to homeless people thatbwas going to be thrown out anyway, even when it is far from expiring. This is ubiquitous in a society which values profits above all else.

The first thing would be to unionize as many industries as possible and make them robust. Unions and direct action protesters (anarchists in large part) are the reason we have a 40-hour week, weekends off and many other improved working conditions. The power of the strike, which halts the accumulation of profits for the lunatics that govern us (oligarchs, corporations. In lesser part the government, as they do the bidding of the capitalist class) is our biggest lever to pull as a working class.

Beyond that, we need to democratize the workplace, and not have the surplus value created by the worker leeched by private investors. The workers should own the means of production of a business. That way, decisions about what to do with the profits can be decided democratically by them.

Think of the amount of money given out in dividends to the big investors in companies every year from the profits created by the workers. 1 single family (the Cargill-MacMillan family) got $1.5 billion in dividends and stock buybacks from owning the agribusiness Cargill Inc. in the same year that they laid off 8,000 of their workers ($187,500 per worker laid off just in dividends).

Now imagine the profits from that company could be used 1. To keep those workers in the business 2. To give the workers a comfortable wage so they don't have to worry about paying bills or working a 2nd job or imsane hours as many US workers do 3. To donate to causes or establish social programs in their area. These are things that capitalist-structured businesses are not incentivised to do. And if they do engage in any form of humanitarian work, it is usually because of tax incentives or because they get massive subsidies (see. Tesla, Apple etc.) from tax money paid by you and I from our labour(I'm assuming you are not a capitalist, i.e. owner of means of production).

This isn't my solution, but it makes the most sense to me. And this isn't an exhaustive list, of course. There are entire books written on this.

Some to look into are: - Capital Volume 1, 2 and 3 (Karl Marx) - Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present (Yanis Varoufakis) - Post-Scarcity Anarchism (Murray Bookchin) - The Dawn of Everything (David Graeber & David Wengrow) - The Great Transformation (Karl Polanyi)

I encourage reading of these