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[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago

Monopolies are forbidden in (functioning) capitalist economies, they are not an assured result.

By who? God?

Plus the documented failure of planned economies, leading to famines and mass deaths.

Most communist revolutions led to massive increase in life expectancy and a massive reduction in hunger. That's just a empirical fact.