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nekusaryesterday at 1:28 PM2 repliesview on HN

And in my experience, the capitalists are SUPER OBSESSED with tallying exact numbers of dead by Communist countries.

Of course in the USA, "Nobody dies due to capitalism!" It's always a 'personal decision'.

Medicines gatekept? Talk to a doctor (state-controlled monopoly)

Go to the doctor? Cant afford it? Go die! :)

Have a nasty disease that will kill you, but pills purge it? $80k please. And insurance wont pay. Hope you can afford it. Solvaldi says hi.

Cant afford housing? There's an underpass or park for that!

Oh you're homeless now? Well, we criminalized that.

OH, so you're in jail? Enjoy substandard living conditions, lack of effective medical, poor food, and slavery. And die in prison? Not a life sentence? Fuck you, you deserved to anyways!

Groceries gouging on food (like meat or eggs or whatever)? Thats a capitalism correction.

Industry polluting your area and causing life expectancy to drop and massive reproductive harm? SHoulda chose a better neighborhood.

Even with Solvaldi, a hepatitis cure costs $84k. But it costs $300 to synthesize at home. And over 6 million people have needlessly died because the cure was capitalistically priced above their legal means. But they will all be labeled as "poor life choices", and not the correct capitalist death. https://kolektiva.media/w/uvD1wWTRoh7HEto8zeSswr - Four Thieves Vinegar Collective video in synthesizing your own pharmaceuticals to bypass capitalist deaths.

The key to capitalism is the magic word "externality". If it's external to what you're doing, you can make others suffer and die and keep your hands clean. And all of this then get shoved on the individual for "Poor Life Choices". In reality, these too are capitalist deaths, but you will *NEVER* see them marked as such.


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kingleopoldyesterday at 2:24 PM

Inside non capitalist places, those solutions dont even get to EXIST. Nobody even cares about nasty disease solution and funding. They don't get invented or they are not allowed for your use, by design. This is a very narrow view and what a word salad.

Now tell me name of the great "Communist countries" that exist today and they are big and have lots of great things to pursue humankind and human lifespan.

I will wait for the name of those counties :)

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nec4byesterday at 8:41 PM

Usually the elite in communist countries went to capitalist countries for health care. Their kids were sent to capitalist countries for schooling. Everyone else was stuck with plenty of rights on paper but very hard to get needed. And communist countries usually build walls to prevent people leaving, why is that if their are so great?