• davel@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    No one is currently being starved to death (or otherwise being deprived of being alive) because of capitalism

    Are you saying that since now only part of the world is starving, it was better in the medieval age when everyone was starving?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Motte-and-bailey_argument

    Also, the nobility & clergy weren’t starving during feudalism, only the peasants during famines.

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      2 months ago

      In every society (even animal) the leaders tend to have a better life than the rest. However, I would argue that also the nobility of the past was subject to all sorts of “inconveniences” that would be unthinkable today.

      Contextualising to the discussion, I find quite ridiculous to “forget” that Capitalism brought more prosperity than any system before it, or to focus on the exploitations of minorities as if they weren’t the norm for the majority in the past.