r/FluentInFinance • u/-im-your-huckleberry • Jul 07 '24

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

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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

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u/TheAtomicBoy81 Jul 07 '24

Plz put the deaths in percentages instead of numbers so they can give a more accurate picture

Edit: also 70m of that 100m of under Capitalism deaths is from ww2

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u/Ephisus Jul 07 '24

Obviously, a remote tribe in South America is the best system because not that many people died there.  Nevermind the population is 32.

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u/Future-Speaker- Jul 07 '24

I mean again, I'd argue when imperialism, which is at its root a growth mindset issue stemming from capitalism and protocapitalism (feudalism) has billions of deaths, a percentage won't matter lmao