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Is Capitalism responsible for the majority of deaths in the last 100 years? (hexbear.net)

submitted 11 months ago by AOCapitulator@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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Let me be clear,

I mean non "natural" deaths, and am including stuff like the failure to counteract malaria due to lack of profit motive, etc etc etc.

Real question, is capitalism the deadliest human invention of all time?

this will probably come down to where you draw the line between capitalism and imperialism, but I'd argue they've been largely once unified force since at least the 1920s

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[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Voici le source!

Comparing India's death rate of 12 per thousand with China's of 7 per thousand, and applying that difference to the Indian population of 781 million in 1986, we get an estimate of excess normal mortality in India of 3.9 million per year. This implies that every eight years or so more people die in India because of its higher regular death rate than died in China in the gigantic famine of 1958–61.37 India seems to manage to fill its cupboard with more skeletons every eight years than China put there in its years of shame.