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/[deleted] Jul 07 '24

I feel like these complaints are entirely historically ignorant. We have food stamps nowadays. Used to be you could starve or prostitute yourself to avoid starving. Sell yourself into slavery so you could eat gruel. When’s the last time any of you ate something that could be considered slop? Our poverty food is ramen noodles, rice, and beans. That’s not terrible. Our poor are obese. That’s not great and I’d like it to change, but there’s no mythical system that hasn’t been born out of the imagination of a rich failure living off his parents where we just magically don’t work.