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> The Economy is not only an abstract concept, but a very twisted and perverse one as well. It once used to refer to the well-being of the masses

When?

> We already have more empty houses than homeless people, more food than we eat, and more medicine than we use, yet people die starving or untreated anyway.

10x more people die of car crashes than famine globally. And about the same die from tobacco exposure than malnutrition which is a wider net to cast.

If we just focus on advanced economies basically nobody dies of famine and less people die of malnutrition than car crashes by a long margin.

A lot of this article is just vibes, not data.

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Exactly. The author is a clueless idiot.



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