Don’t Tell Bernie, But Capitalism Has Made Human Life Fantastically Better
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ricochet.comPosted Feb 11, 2016, 12:14 AM UTC
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Ugh, that first graph is horrible. Has this guy ever heard of a log scale?
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correlation != causation
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Don't tell An-Caps but unrestricted capitalism is the cause of mass species extinctions, human rights abuses, externally imposed and maintained dictatorships, and global climate change.
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Don't tell An-Caps but unrestricted capitalism is the cause of mass species extinctions, human rights abuses, externally imposed and maintained dictatorships, and global climate change.
Something that does not exist on this planet is causing those problems? You SURE about that? You SURE those problems aren't caused by something that actually exists in reality?
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Mass extinctions and climate changes have happened before and will happen again. Human rights have been abused since the beginning of humanity; statistically, proportionally, cases of gross abuse are way, way down, as is the case with dictatorships and other overly oppressive governmental structures.
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Someone should probably tell Bernie.