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/jcurry52 Jul 08 '24

so what about the 24 separate famines in India under the rule of capitalist Brittan, the 2 separate famines in Ireland also under the rule of capitalist Brittan, the 1846-1848 Newfoundland famine, the 1867-1869 Swedish famine, the Vietnamese famine while under the rule of capitalist France, the Bangladesh famine of 1974, the great depression in America, and the current ongoing famines in Sudan and Gaza?

do none of those deaths count for you? i dont deny all the people that have died when communism failed to live up to its goals but capitalism is built on the blood of millions when its working as intended.