/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>13225887
we are succeeding wildly. Never before in human history have things been even close to how they are now

People are living longer, better lives with more and better stuff. You don't have to watch 50% of your children die before adulthood, violence both petty criminal and large scale war is at an all time low

Capitalism does have some problems, but they are incredibly trivial compared to the problems of every other system we have ever come up with

>>12798280
>It's to show poverty since the 80s hasn't lowered even though productivity and profits have gone up
Thats only because the definition of poverty is a moving target. What we consider poverty in America today would be considered rich in much of the world and even America only a few generations ago. Its not useful metric unless you adjust for something like absolute poverty that doesn't move the goal posts as a society becomes more prosperous overall

>>12214067
>Yes and if today's hellworld
Literally everything is better than ever before. Stop being such a pessimistic lefty. People have access to better and more things than ever before, lead higher quality of lives and live longer. There has literally never been a better time to live than our generation's. Most of our problems are insanely trivial next to even the problems of 50 years ago. We went from Jim Crow to whining about what percent of super heroes are what race in like 2 generations, thats amazing progress. In that same time we went from a pretty much unending series of wars stretching back all of human history to literally the most peaceful time ever. Never has a person been less likely to die in war in the era of capitalist hegemony

>>12103913
the world is literally better than it has ever before been thanks to western capitalism and the demise of religiosity that allowed it

>>11827953
>Patenting seeds
why is this bad? Who gives a shit? Do you think no companies should be allowed to patent their invention? especially ones involving expensive research before being allowed to market?
>suing farmers who happened to have their crops cross-pollinated with Monsanto crops
This has literally never happened
>and the actual chemical pesticides they manufacture like Roundup that poison the ground and all human life in the area.
thats a bit hyperbolic

> The problem is capitalism, not science.
Capitalism is just applying rationality and science to the economy, its been an absolute boon to humanity