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Re:We lost the war. Welcome to the world of tomorrow (2006) by mnadkvlb on Thursday May 22, 2014 @05:53AM (#7782982)
I think poverty is worse than war. That is the whole point of the article, you make masses of people poor and then turn them helpless and harmless by social benefits. Poverty is worse than slavery because people feel sad about themselves than identifying the cause of unequal distribution of the resources.
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Re:We lost the war. Welcome to the world of tomorrow (2006) by jacquesm on Thursday May 22, 2014 @06:16AM (#7783046)
Makes you wonder how many people that have lived through a war agree with you.
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Re:We lost the war. Welcome to the world of tomorrow (2006) by arethuza on Thursday May 22, 2014 @07:53AM (#7783328)
In general, I would agree with you, but in some occasions the effects of extreme poverty can almost be indistinguishable from a kind of civil warfare:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_%28Ireland%29

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Re:We lost the war. Welcome to the world of tomorrow (2006) by lclarkmichalek on Thursday May 22, 2014 @08:26AM (#7783437)
No one wins in the misery olympics
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Re:We lost the war. Welcome to the world of tomorrow (2006) by Ygg2 on Thursday May 22, 2014 @09:08AM (#7783603)
Poverty also leads to civil war or worse. Cannibalism also is frequent during famine.
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