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I'm no historian, but I think extreme poverty has existed for a lot longer than the idea of capitalism.

• lkuty 8y ago
  Sure but now we have a system that is very well optimized to allow a few people to get super rich at the cost of the whole world safey (them included).
• FranzFerdiNaN 8y ago
  And yet we choose to congratulate a system that willingly put people into extreme poverty for centuries for finally giving a few scraps back. We could have had a system which lifted people out of poverty, but no, we went for slavery and colonialism and all that fun stuff. And we continue to do that. Half of America is one missed paycheck away from financial ruin, and that is the richest country that has ever existed. But sure, lets praise capitalism!