Comment by nekusar
8 hours ago
And in my experience, the capitalists are SUPER OBSESSED with tallying exact numbers of dead by Communist countries.
Of course in the USA, "Nobody dies due to capitalism!" It's always a 'personal decision'.
Medicines gatekept? Talk to a doctor (state-controlled monopoly)
Go to the doctor? Cant afford it? Go die! :)
Have a nasty disease that will kill you, but pills purge it? $80k please. And insurance wont pay. Hope you can afford it. Solvaldi says hi.
Cant afford housing? There's an underpass or park for that!
Oh you're homeless now? Well, we criminalized that.
OH, so you're in jail? Enjoy substandard living conditions, lack of effective medical, poor food, and slavery. And die in prison? Not a life sentence? Fuck you, you deserved to anyways!
Groceries gouging on food (like meat or eggs or whatever)? Thats a capitalism correction.
Industry polluting your area and causing life expectancy to drop and massive reproductive harm? SHoulda chose a better neighborhood.
Even with Solvaldi, a hepatitis cure costs $84k. But it costs $300 to synthesize at home. And over 6 million people have needlessly died because the cure was capitalistically priced above their legal means. But they will all be labeled as "poor life choices", and not the correct capitalist death. https://kolektiva.media/w/uvD1wWTRoh7HEto8zeSswr - Four Thieves Vinegar Collective video in synthesizing your own pharmaceuticals to bypass capitalist deaths.
The key to capitalism is the magic word "externality". If it's external to what you're doing, you can make others suffer and die and keep your hands clean. And all of this then get shoved on the individual for "Poor Life Choices". In reality, these too are capitalist deaths, but you will *NEVER* see them marked as such.
Inside non capitalist places, those solutions dont even get to EXIST. Nobody even cares about nasty disease solution and funding. They don't get invented or they are not allowed for your use, by design. This is a very narrow view and what a word salad.
Now tell me name of the great "Communist countries" that exist today and they are big and have lots of great things to pursue humankind and human lifespan.
I will wait for the name of those counties :)
> Nobody even cares about nasty disease solution and funding.
This is just silly.
The US has such a large lead in research output because of direct government intervention and funding since about the 1950s. That is a big part of why up until the Trump admin the US has been a powerhouse in medicine.
China is very likely going to be the next world leader in medicine. They've been investing heavily in biomedical research and they are sucking up all the talent that the US is defunding.
> They don't get invented or they are not allowed for your use, by design. This is a very narrow view and what a word salad.
That's a wild conspiracy. Governments want healthy citizens because healthy citizens power a government's economy. But further, governments are made of people and most people realize that general medical research is beneficial to all.
> Now tell me name of the great "Communist countries" that exist today and they are big and have lots of great things to pursue humankind and human lifespan.
China is the best example. Few communist countries have been able to be successful because it's been US policy to undermine them at every turn. Cuba is perhaps one of the best examples of this. And also, remarkably, even with the trade embargo of the US, cuba has a relatively decent healthcare system. The number one thing holding it back is they can't import what they need. Ironically enough, because the capitalists have decided to forgo profit because hurting a communist nation is more important than making money.
China got it's special status because for whatever reason Nixon fell in love with them.
> China is very likely going to be the next world leader in medicine. They've been investing heavily in biomedical research and they are sucking up all the talent that the US is defunding.
They sure have. They created a global pandemic! And convinced the world it was from bat shit. Incredible.
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Yep. One big pattern you will see with capititalist countries is they will carry on that "competition is amazing and wonderful"....
But when communism wants to compete with capitalism, suddenly competition is evil and you're godless and all the slurs capitalists use.
And we see with mild socialists like Mamdani, its easy to see the hate and slurs.
Like, do you or do you not like competition?
Usually the elite in communist countries went to capitalist countries for health care. Their kids were sent to capitalist countries for schooling. Everyone else was stuck with plenty of rights on paper but very hard to get needed. And communist countries usually build walls to prevent people leaving, why is that if their are so great?