• rchive@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    Yes, really.

    And poverty is many many times lower today than it was a few hundred years ago before capitalism. Even entertaining the idea that it’s not is completely insane. Capitalism correlates extremely strongly with low poverty country to country within a single time period, as well. 2023, for example.

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      10 months ago

      No. Not really.

      And poverty is many many times lower

      Did you come up with this galaxy-brained tripe before or after considering the crushing 3rd world poverty that sustains global capitalism?

      Capitalism correlates

      According to whom, Clyde? Capitalists?

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        10 months ago

        If your argument is basically just conspiracy theory, than I don’t know what to tell you.

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          10 months ago

          Capitalism is a conspiracy theory now?

          Hold on… I need to fetch the popcorn. Your little right-wing logic pretzel is about to go full Chernobyl.