• vga@sopuli.xyz
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    22 hours ago

    Yeah we should totally kill the homeless. Or in fact just kill the poorest 10%

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      14 hours ago

      Hopefully you’re joking, but in case you are not: poverty is not due to lack of resources, but the problems around their distribution.

      Killing the poor will just make those previously better off drift into the poor category.

      Even if only the richest 1% survives, most of them will lose their positions and become poor, as there will be no workforce, inflation will go through the roof, and a competition will play out all over again, leading some to be the masters and some to be the slaves.

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        6 hours ago

        I am joking.

        Although I’m not saying these are exactly the same thing, I hope the people who advocate killing the richest 1% are joking too. Somehow I feel like some of them might not be.

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        15 hours ago

        If you break capitalism, all of the people that exist because of capitalism will die. Imagine flipping the world production back to before 1850. There would be Billions that die.

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          14 hours ago

          Again, hopefully these are all jokes.

          Capitalism doesn’t bring us anything; it’s a distribution system. No machines will suddenly disappear if it’s gone, no researchers, developers and engineers will suddenly die, and the world will just keep spinning.

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            1 hour ago

            You can definitely pretend that is what will happen.

            Read about the great leap forward if you will.