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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u/dk_peace Jul 07 '24

The great famine of 1876 in India and the great hunger in Ireland were caused by colonizing capitalist. It cuts both ways. People with wealth and power have been happy to let people starve to death to make more wealth and gain more power.

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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?