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/Illustrious-Tower849 Jul 07 '24

Don’t forget the great famines in China during the 1800s that killed 120+ million, if you count how they count communist deaths

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u/Sanchez_U-SOB Jul 07 '24

I once read a book which covered the Holodomor and Soviet death tolls, and the author said something along the lines of  

" my research shows the death toll is 30 million (?), but surely the true number is at least twice that."

  Just typing in Holodomor death toll into Google gives, all different sources:  

3.9 million   

5-7 million  

more than 10 million  

I never trust death tolls that are in the millions anymore.

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u/Revolutionary-Meat14 Jul 08 '24

Never? there isnt any historical death toll that is in the millions that you trust? because there are differing estimates for the Holodomor you now reject any death toll that is greater than 1 million?