• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      The rise in life expectancy has fuck all to do with capitalism given that life expectancy in both Cuba and China is higher than the US right now. Meanwhile, slavery continues to be the backbone of western economies.

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          Not sure what point you’re even trying to make here. Life expectancy has been improving due to science and technology improving.

          You could starve to death because your crop had been taken by the lords or die hanged to a tree because you complained

          That’s literally how things work today where western corps exploit the workers in the global south. That’s what your lifestyle in the west is built on. Go read up on the coups, death squads, and other atrocities the west regularly commits around the world to keep the system of exploitation going. Here’s a good primer for you https://archive.org/details/KillingHope

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              Last I checked, the genocide of the native population of America was fuelled by the British capitalism. Notably, capitalism was also the primary driver of African slave trade.

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                  Wow, how convenient: “it wasn’t a perfect utopia so you’re not allowed to blame capitalism for it”.

                  A reasoning as perfectly smooth and circular as your brain

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          No, you’re the only one here that doesn’t realize that OP is advocating for socialism. This is a meme attacking capitalist realism, not stating that feudalism was better. You’re in the fringe minority with that misinterpretation.

          The west is authoritarian in that capitalists have full control, yes, and the PRC is making tremendous strides thanks to socialism.

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      “…including being crucified, eaten by lions in a public show, and being sewn alive inside a bag with various animals and thrown in the river to drown.”

      We’ve barely evolved at all. I just heard the President of the US relishing the idea of escapees from his concentration camp being eaten by alligators.

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      I fail to see what any of this has to do with an economic system. These are scientific or legal topics.

      And indeed, slavery is present under unchecked capitalism as well.