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richforrestertoday at 1:30 AM4 repliesview on HN

That has little to do with what I said.

A third of the world lives in poverty. That's the fault of capitalism.


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WalterBrighttoday at 7:58 AM

About 90% of the world lived in poverty before capitalism.

Besides, America's poor have a higher standard of living than medieval kings.

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rationalisttoday at 1:36 AM

> A third of the world lives in poverty. That's the fault of capitalism.

So what you're saying is that capitalism lifted about two thirds of the world out of poverty.

Thanks to capitalism, I don't have to toil in the fields.

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CamperBob2today at 1:33 AM

Really? What other systems are better at lifting people out of poverty (without killing a few tens of millions in the process?)

There are so many other places where this sort of low-effort high-school edgelording fits in better than here.

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sophrosyne42today at 9:44 AM

The third of the worls that lives in poverty obstinantly refuses to adopt capitalist methods.