Every single person who’s died of hunger
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Jackthelad@lemmy.world 1 year agocapitalism also leads to the deaths of millions
Citation needed.
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Jackthelad@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wait until you read about communist famines.
Eldritch@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Those were not on purpose. But were definitely made worse through the actions of dogmatic uneducated authoritarians much like capitalism. However, the fact that it happened to leninists involuntarily doesn’t justify capitalist doing it purposefully.
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 1 year ago
See what you just wrote there. Every single person. That is so utterly ridiculous thing to say.
Nuklia@lemdro.id 1 year ago
Every single person.
I think they were adding that anyone who has starved under these regimes should be counted in the needless deaths alongside the genocides
stormblessed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Would you also require a citation that the sun is very hot?
squiblet@kbin.social 1 year ago
People who have died trying to ration insulin, due to how in the US it’s made by for-profit corporations, diabetes care requires many other ridiculously expensive supplies, and the system is set up to require expensive doctor office visits and insurance to maintain a prescription, though type 1 diabetes is life-long. Plenty of other medical examples also.
Jackthelad@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s because the US healthcare system is garbage.
Look across Western Europe and they don’t have those issues, despite having a lot of private involvement in their healthcare.
squiblet@kbin.social 1 year ago
No kidding. But it’s specifically capitalist garbage and it’s the for- profits companies involved in it top to bottom who strongly resist reforms.
muse@kbin.social 1 year ago
https://mronline.org/2019/01/15/britain-robbed-india-of-45-trillion-thence-1-8-billion-indians-died-from-deprivation/
There's a couple