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Re:The coal mine that ate Hambacher forest by KozmoNau7 on Friday July 12, 2019 @09:17AM (#20420445)
~20 million people die every year, because it is not profitable to feed them, and give them clean water and medicine.

So please think about that number. Deaths solely due to a lack of profitability.

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Re:The coal mine that ate Hambacher forest by bubblewrap on Friday July 12, 2019 @07:51PM (#20425552)
Can you give a citation? Where does this happen? Is it really just capitalist unwillingness to deliver food, or are these people in the hands of dictators, and it is capitalist unwillingness to sacrifice soldiers to topple them? And do capitalists start wars, or governments?
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