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* Bengal famine [1] * Boer concentration camps [2] * Various indigenous genocides [3] * Gaza and West Bank occupation [4] * 750k deaths a year due to long w

* Bengal famine [1] * Boer concentration camps [2] * Various indigenous genocides [3] * Gaza and West Bank occupation [4] * 750k deaths a year due to long working hours [5] * Millions in the atlantic slave trade [6] * the 19th century cotton industry * the modern cotton industry [7] I can go on. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War_concentration_camps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War_concentration_... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_of_indigenous_peoples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_of_indigenous_peoples [4] https://www.statista.com/chart/16516/israeli-palestinian-casualties-by-in-gaza-and-the-west-bank/ https://www.statista.com/chart/16516/israeli-palestinian-cas... [5] https://www.who.int/news/item/16-09-2021-who-ilo-almost-2-million-people-die-from-work-related-causes-each-year https://www.who.int/news/item/16-09-2021-who-ilo-almost-2-mi... [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade [7] https://ejfoundation.org/news-media/the-casualties-of-cotton https://ejfoundation.org/news-media/the-casualties-of-cotton

damagednoob 4y ago
You conflate Capitalism (developed during the Renaissance[1]) with Colonialism (around since the Iron Age[2]). How is point no 4 related to Capitalism? Where is the willing buyer/willing seller for point 6? Is your argument that there would be no work related deaths under communism? Who is forcing people to work in the cotton industry? So yeah, come up with more examples. [1]:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism#History https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism#History [2]:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonies_in_antiquity https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonies_in_antiquity

damagednoob 4y ago

You conflate Capitalism (developed during the Renaissance[1]) with Colonialism (around since the Iron Age[2]). How is point no 4 related to Capitalism? Where is the willing buyer/willing seller for point 6? Is your argument that there would be no work related deaths under communism? Who is forcing people to work in the cotton industry? So yeah, come up with more examples. [1]:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism#History https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism#History [2]:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonies_in_antiquity https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonies_in_antiquity