good short read clarifying a common misconception
Does capitalism cause poverty? --- weforum.org/agenda/2015/08
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Forgive heavy-handed analogy: that analysis is on the level of saying major organ failure can't be attributed to cancer in one part of the body.
Not saying capitalism in itself causes extreme poverty, but the argument he gives is not even on a relevant level of analysis.
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(It's also structurally similar to "They didn't do the National Socialism/Communism correctly," which is a telling form of self-absolving arg.)
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