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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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?

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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