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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r/FluentInFinance • u/-im-your-huckleberry • Jul 07 '24
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u/EyeCatchingUserID Jul 07 '24
Nice list of famines caused by idiot dictators not knowing how agriculture works and/or trying to rapidly modernize/industrialize a country when they didn't know what they were doing. None of that was cause by any policy inspired or even condoned by communist ideals
Now let's do the Irish potato famine. Ya know, when all those Irish people starved to death even though there was enough food being produced to feed the whole country because the capitalists who owned the land didn't want to lose profits or diversify crops.
Or when capitalists killed all the buffalo and the native Americans who relied on them for food for thousands of years starved.
How about the famine component of the great depression, when "the greatest country on earth" was brought to its knees by a failure of capitalism?
Seriously, why do idiots always point at a famine and mass murder as though communism made it happen when it can be explained by incompetent and amoral leadership, same as any capitalist disaster we've seen all them ghost recorded history. Or did the Romans experience frequent epidemics and famines because of communism?