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>>17064753
>Dude, capitalism has lifted millions out of poverty!
Take 3 people: Sanjeet, Joao and Cletus.
Sanjeet is a homeless child living in Mumbai, India. He lives and sleeps on a pile of garbage. Sanjeet lives on less than a dollar a day.
Joao lives in Sao Paolo, Brazil. He lives in a favela. His house is made of corrugated metal and other assorted trash. He lives on more than a dollar a day.
Cletus lives in West Virginia, USA. He lives in a trailer park. He lives on more than a dollar a day.
There might be less Sanjeets living in the world today, yet the number of Joaos and Cletuses has either remained the same, or increased.
Saying that capitalism is reducing poverty because there's less people living on less than a dollar today is incredibly misleading because there's LEVELS of poverty.
I don't want to live like a hobo or Sanjeet, but I also certainly don't want to live like Cletus or Joao. And with the shrinking of the middle-class, more people are going to be living like the latter two while capital is accumulated in fewer hands.
You still haven't refuted my claim that the benefits of capitalism are only incidental.
Fuck anyone who uses this incredibly fallacious and underhanded argument.