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Every decade, global capitalism decides that 100 million people don't need to eat and they get to starve to death. In the same time period, slightly less than t
by heavyset_go 10mo ago
Every decade, global capitalism decides that 100 million people don't need to eat and they get to starve to death. In the same time period, slightly less than that die from lack of medical care the market decides they don't need.
And that's just contemporary capitalism. Hundreds of millions starved in famines, and starving people got to watch as the food they themselves harvested was shipped to markets that would pay more for it. Millions were enslaved, and cultures, races and communities were wiped off the faces of continents in the name of profit.
- msuniverse2026 10mo agoYeah and the last century of capitalism created such a boom of food that it increased the population of the world by like 5 billion people
- simondotau 10mo agoAnd created such a boom of medicine that one can assert that the poorest among us should be entitled to it, and not have that assertion dismissed for being literally impossible.
- heavyset_go 10mo agoIf only the market didn't decide that hundreds of millions of those people don't need to eat
- simondotau 10mo agoWhat were they doing before capitalism and how did capitalism stop them?
- simondotau 10mo agoIt's a good thing capitalism existed to create the technology needed to tell us all how bad capitalism is. Down with capitalism!
- heavyset_go 10mo agoYou will find me on my fainting couch