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TobiWanKenobi<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> is a cancer, and the deeper you dive into the rabbit hole, the more deception, lies, and ploys do you find at the core of the system that dominates our modern world. Recently I stumbled upon this great research paper of Dylan Sullivan and Jason Hickel (<span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@jasonhickel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jasonhickel</span></a></span>), called "Capitalism and extreme poverty: A global analysis of real wages, human height, and mortality since the long 16th century"<br>(You can read the full paper here: <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X22002169?via%3Dihub#ab005" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencedirect.com/science/arti</span><span class="invisible">cle/pii/S0305750X22002169?via%3Dihub#ab005</span></a>)</p><p>These two gentlemen methodically and rationally take apart the entire hoax about <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> having historically improved living standards for the people under its influence, demasking it as a blatant lie. </p><p>-----------------------------</p><p>"As for the impact of capitalism on human welfare: data on wages, human height and mortality indicate that the rise and expansion of the capitalist world-system from circa 1500 caused a decline in nutritional standards and health outcomes. Recovery from this prolonged condition of crisis occurred only recently: the late 19th century in Northwest Europe and the mid-20th century in the periphery.</p><p>If one starts from the assumption that extreme poverty is the natural state of humanity, then it may appear as good news that only a fraction of the global population lives in extreme poverty today. However, if extreme poverty is a sign of severe social dislocation, relatively rare under normal conditions, then it should concern us that - despite many instances of progress since the middle of the 20th century - such dislocation remains so prevalent under contemporary capitalism. Depending on the subsistence basket one uses to measure poverty, as of 2008, between 200 million and 1.21 billion people live in extreme poverty[...]."</p><p>----------------------------</p><p>As the paper proves and going by many other indicators and research done on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a>, the system doesn't view poverty as problem to be solved, but rather as a desired state of people and countries.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a> (now <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/neocolonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neocolonialism</span></a>) was built on the premise of a few rich and powerful exploiting aborigines and their land to enrich themselves while catering to a lowly and vulgar superiority complex. This continues all the way into modern times, where colonialists (now in the shape of multi-national corporations) extort resources from economically-weaker countries to feed their shareholders. For colonialism poverty plays a key role to keep the local population on a tight leash. After all, those who struggle to make a living have no time to think of rising against their oppressors, right?</p><p>But, this isn't limited to international relations either. </p><p>Take the US, the land of the free which embraces the capitalist mindset the most, for example (of course the same applies to all other capitalist countries but sadly the US is furthest down the line when it comes to implementing the worst aspects of capitalism).</p><p>Here you have companies artificially keeping a certain percentage of citizens poor because those people can then be used as leverage against the working citizens. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poverty</span></a> is being weaponized as a threat and as a state to be frowned upon. But, because of the social shunning and capitalist outlet labeling poverty as proof of "laziness", the 38 million poor Americans (figure according to US Government for 2021) cannot fight back. They're busy trying to survive. In a land that can fork over 900 billion dollars for its annual defense budget.<br>And to make clear that the US isn't an outlier with this either, Germany (my current homeland) has 17 million poor people (according to the Paritätische Sozialverband) - a country that has no problem spending billions to subsidize big corporations during Covid.</p><p>As such, you can see that capitalists and the governments steered by them have no interest in resolving the issue of poverty. Instead, they artificially create it to use it as a tool to extort ever more money from other countries and their own citizens.</p><p>Thanks for reading all the way to the end. I feel addressing poverty is a very important topic because the poor (of which I used to be part at some points of my life) don't have enough of a voice in media, politics, or anywhere else.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SocialInequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialInequality</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Social" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Social</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/systemchange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>systemchange</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/exploitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>exploitation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/corporategreed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corporategreed</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/capitalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>society</span></a></p>
Roman Pokora<p>New <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/intro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intro</span></a> ! I am still new here and for the beginning I will mention some interests in no particular order:</p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a><br><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Cycling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cycling</span></a><br><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Climbing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Climbing</span></a><br><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nature</span></a><br><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Epidemiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Epidemiology</span></a><br><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/RadiationResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadiationResearch</span></a><br><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Dust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dust</span></a><br><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cancer</span></a><br><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Allergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Allergy</span></a><br><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/IgE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IgE</span></a><br><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PlanetaryHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlanetaryHealth</span></a><br><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a><br><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Bias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bias</span></a><br><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/SocialInequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialInequality</span></a></p>
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