Is this the part where we count starvation in China or the Soviet Union as a systemic flaw, but famines and malaria deaths in the free world as the Hand of God, while billionaires hoard wealth and shit on gold toilets?
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And Cuba. And Venezuela. And North Korea. Billionaires are actually extremely pivotal in feeding the said areas where you are touting lapses, even though they don’t govern them. Warren Buffett’s son teaches African tribes sustainable farming in customized by region. It’s not the Billionaires’ wards.
True, and AFAIK the Gates Foundation does useful anti-malaria work. And yet we still have excess deaths from preventable disease and starvation in the free world. Not praising Commumism btw, only hoping that we're actually comparing (lack of) apples with apples.
I try to avoid using Gates because all the conspiracy theories, but yes. The argument for Capitalist’s responsibility for fighting health and hunger only ends where Capitalism is at fault for creating them. Some health and hunger is caused by choices not to modernize/ hold traditions/weak resources
Yes, good not to be all/nothing about such things. Obvs all economic systems are about allocation of scarce resources. The profit motive is the strongest incentive for production but often weak at distribution. Where ppl die from a lack of distribution of surplus, IMHO it's 100% a system fault tho.
Capitalism creates false scarcity to increase value of remaining product. There's plenty of food in the world. People don't have to starve but capitalism would rather see you starve than feed somebody that didn't return a profit
And blame you for not pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. Bad luck to you if the exact same system makes bootstraps almost impossible to come by in your community or country.
Capitalism is necessarily exploitative. Imagine if all of the countries that we exploit to float our capitalism decided they are no longer going to play ball? America would be destroyed overnight
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