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A word cloud of nonesense ideological boogeymen connected by free-association.

In two years time when the death rate on C19 is reported at as-flu levels and the world is in a global depression with massive excess poverty, death, and abuse you'll be ranting then too -- just connecting these to "neoliberal conspiracies" as now.

Rather, this will be caused by precise the lack of concern for the economy.




> A word cloud of nonesense

The same could be easily said about your comments here, comparing "redistribution of wealth" to genocide.


Not a comparison, an observation. Those societies which tried to create prosperity by redistribution, found there is in fact too little to redistribute. And indeed, therefore, engaged in mass murder to deal with that scarcity.

The same holds today. The GDP of the planet, distributed to all its population is a one-off 20k USD. Not enough wealth for almost anything.

Wealth is about producing over time, and increasing global wealth, ie. decreasing global poverty, is about producing more.

I think the failure to associate such policies with the genocides which underpin them is one of the great educational and moral failures of the 20th C. It hasn't been explained to people that our society is the most moral (by being the richest) in history because people engage in productive activities which provide for their own wealth.


> Not enough wealth for almost anything.

That is absolute bullshit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22993157

"2M chickens to be killed in US processing plants due to lack of employees."


Did you read my comment?

The net GDP of the world, divided by the number of people in it is a one-off 20k -- that amount solves almost no global problems.

As for 2m chickens dying, that's a one-off meal for c. 5 million people.

So one day of hunger for only 5m people was lost. Again: almost nothing.

World problems are solved through growth, not by saving a few lost dinners.




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