I dunno, man, looks to me like capitalism's doing a pretty good job of kicking world hunger's ass.pic.twitter.com/gVvhyFYWMC
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I dunno, man, looks to me like capitalism's doing a pretty good job of kicking world hunger's ass.pic.twitter.com/gVvhyFYWMC
Yeah only 1 in 5 people are starving to death in Asia and Africa. Fucking impressive.
Relative to where it was 20 years ago? Yeah, it is
At drastically lower rates than they ever have in the past
Great. Go explain to 1 in 5 people that smarter folks are working on it. In your fervor to engage in a battle of wits over that taunting post, you’re completely missing both the point of the leading tweet and the fact that actual humans are starving to death anyway.
No one denies that, and no one denies hat it’s awful. The question is what should we do now? And the answer is we should double down on what’s working, because it objectively is.
That post blames capitalism for people starving to death, despite the fact that as a result of capitalism orders of magnitude fewer are dying than under any other economic regime
Neither the lead post nor the sassy retort can prove that capitalism had anything do do with either outcome.
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