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rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• SoupBrick@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah, but it’s ok because a few hundred people get to have more money than god.

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  • eurodyne@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Can fairytales have money?

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    • Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Considering most of their wealth is speculative anyway, I’d say it’s fair to assume imagined entities can be included on the scoreboard.

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    • Impound4017@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Even if they can’t, wouldn’t that just mean that the category “more money than god” is just larger than you’d think at first?

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    • perpetualflight@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Pretty sure a good chunk of Disney’s budget is allocated to fairytales

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• Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Erm, source?

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  • rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Here’s a running tally

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    • Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The 420 million figure isn’t a measured death toll caused by capitalism. About 90% comes from deaths associated with hunger and inadequate healthcare, and the site makes the additional causal assumption that those deaths are attributable to capitalism. Show me the counterfactual proving those people would have survived under a non-capitalist system. Especially when considering the billions of dollars capitalist countries give in aid internationally. Also, global child mortality has fallen massively during the same period the site is counting these deaths as capitalism’s toll. The under-five mortality rate fell about 60% from 1990 to 2024, while the site attributes millions of ongoing deaths to capitalism.

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      • joecitizen@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Uh decreases in child mortality is a result from non-profit, state-driven public health initiatives and mass vaccination campaigns, publicly funded sanitation, and universal health protocols rather than market driven incentives. Credit belongs to public infrastructure, not private market distribution. You can thank socialism for this.

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      • 5318008@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Show me the counterfactual proving those people would have survived under a non-capitalist system.

        Are you going to apply the same standard to your original claim? How many of the alleged million would have survived under a non-communist system?

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      • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        About 90% comes from deaths associated with hunger and inadequate healthcare, and the site makes the additional causal assumption that those deaths are attributable to capitalism

        Ah the good ol tactic of “these people didn’t die due to covid, but they died while having covid.”

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      • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        About 90% comes from deaths associated with hunger and inadequate healthcare, and the site makes the additional causal assumption that those deaths are attributable to capitalism

        Yeah? You want to try applying this standard to your own numbers first.

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      • Batman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Also needs to be normalized by the number of people in each system.

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  • visch@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You too

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    • Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I didnt make the 200 mil meme but I did just finish this book that does a pretty good job laying it out. www.goodreads.com/…/998056.Death_by_Government

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