• WhiteHawk@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    None? People don’t starve to death in western countries. And where they do the issue is lack of infrastructure. A communist government couldn’t conjure the resources needed to build that out of thin air either.

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      None? People don’t starve to death in western countries. And where they do the issue is lack of infrastructure.

      “This thing doesn’t happen, and when it does, it’s not the fault of capitalism itself” is a monumentally stupid argument. Especially when talking about the homeless population, which absolutely does have people that starve.

      A communist government couldn’t conjure the resources needed to build that out of thin air either.

      And the capitalist economy chose not to build it because it wasn’t profitable, or after it was built, it was too expensive to be used.

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        1 year ago

        Not to mention that the people in the global south starve because their food production literally goes to the west. What a fucking moron.

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        1 year ago

        Where is your great communist country ?? Oh wait, it’s not there. It doesn’t exist and it never will. Capitalism works. Not perfect but it works. Your idealized version of communism is great but so is my idealized version of capitalism where everyone has a shot at the American dream!

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      saying that “people don’t starve to death in western countries” without understanding in the slightest the actual harms of food insecurity and how it leads to death is a very accurate representation of the scientific ignorance and sociopathic lack of empathy that capitalism supporters bring to the table in these kinds of discussions a hundred times out of a hundred