Poverty as prosperity

Even if we can see, just for the sake of argument, if we can see that capitalism has, saved hundreds of millions of people from poverty, which is actually something that they've only started to say recently because they wanna give capitalism credit for what China has done, It's nothing but a deflection from the literal billions of victims of capitalism because capitalism was a driving force in colonization, in slavery, modern slavery, famine, ecological disaster, deadly working conditions, on and on. So for example, European colonization is estimated to have caused fifty million deaths. Capitalist driven wars have resulted in a hundred and sixty million deaths. Upwards of twenty million Africans died in the Transatlantic slave trade. This is all from cap the the impact of capitalism.

Take credit for that too and that's just in the in the history, that's just in the past. But if you're talking about today, where at least eight million people die every year because they can't afford medicine, that's capitalism. About nine million people die every year because they can't afford food. Half of those are children under the age of five, well, that's capitalism. Three million people die every year because of unsafe working conditions, that's capitalism.

So that's about twenty million people per year or about five hundred million, half a billion people since the year 2000. And that's just talking specifically about deaths, we're not talking about general suffering because if we talk about that, well, there's at least 50,000,000 people living in conditions of modern slavery right now. Around 15,000,000 people are forcibly displaced for large economic projects, development and so on every year. That's capitalism. A billion people are living in extreme poverty right now.

That's extreme poverty. That means it's below, the official World Bank poverty threshold of $2 a day. So if you make $3 a day, that doesn't include you. 854,000,000 people are undernourished today because food prices are too high. That's capitalism.

Over 2,000,000,000 people lack access to essential medicines due to high costs, that's capitalism. I mean, I could go on. And like I said, the World Bank set the the international poverty line at around $2 a day and anyone earning anything above that is technically considered to have been lifted out of poverty. So yes, if you make just $2.50 per day, capitalism has rescued you. It's a deliberately low standard designed to make the numbers look better.

It doesn't reflect any meaningful improvement in their lives. It simply changes the way that poverty is measured just to try to make capitalism look, like it's doing more than it is and helping more than it is. You eliminate poverty by redefining it as not poverty.