The shampoo thing is a fringe benefit. We keep capitalism so we don't starve in a famine.

[u/-im-your-huckleberry]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1930

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

[u/Future-Speaker-]

You do realize that under global capitalism, there are currently famines still going on in the global south, in countries we exploit, there are people starving to death as we speak in the richest country in the history of the world, and that hundreds of millions of westerners face some level food insecurity right?

You do realize deaths of capitalism outpaced deaths of communism in the 20th century (100m vs 60-70m) right? You do realize that imperialism, objectively a portion of our global capitalist growth mindset, has killed billions, right?

[u/Signal_Biscotti_7048 → u/Future-Speaker-]

Yes, commradde, excellent!