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At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution there were an estimated 200 million people and virtually 100% poverty.

Now there are over 8.5 billion people and yet we’ve managed to reduce both poverty and hunger to the lowest levels in history. Along with the lowest rates of people dying due to war.

socialism didn’t do that.

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Completely irrelevant to what I wrote. My comment has nothing to do with socialism.

Not to mention fallaciously attributing technological innovations to capitalism as if they could not occur under other economic systems.

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So in your fantasy world we would be at 8.5 billion people along with low poverty, hunger, and deaths from war… but replacing capitalism with socialism.

Likely you fantasize no income and instead it would be the whole “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” thing, right?

Unfortunately for your fantasy… the result of socialism has always been the deaths of millions of people through starvation and murder (followed by collapse and/or acceptance of capitalism)

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Are you a bot, or just responding to the wrong person? Because that’s the second comment in a row that has nothing to do with what I wrote.

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Are you confusing socialism with communism again? And are you confusing authoritarian dictatorships with communism?

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It sure helped, though.

Probably one of the biggest benefactors.

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Socialism has resulted in the deaths of millions of people through starvation and murder.

There are no redeeming qualities of socialism.

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No, that’s a complete lie. It has never resulted in the death of anyone, but rather has saved millions of lives and improved their - and our - standards of living.

But then, you don’t actually know what socialism is, so you just make up lies for the evil boogyman hiding in your closet.

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