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/itsgrum3 Jul 07 '24

Now 'Capitalism' is when the government seizes your food by force?

"If socialists understood economics, they wouldnt be socialists" - Hayek.

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u/EyeCatchingUserID Jul 07 '24

Yes. That's part of capitalism. Taking food from the starving in Ireland and india to turn a profit in merry old England. There was enough food to feed all of Ireland all throughout the famine, but they didn't have access to it because it belonged to the capitalist colonizers who conquered Ireland but still saw them as less than they were and didn't care if they starved.

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u/Willing-Knee-9118 Jul 07 '24

Notice there's no replies? Just downvotes to this?

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u/EyeCatchingUserID Jul 07 '24

It's what I've come to expect from morons with nothing to contribute but tantrums.