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Capitalism neither prevents gulags nor famines. And you can bet (pun intended) someone will create them on purpose if they can make profit from it
> There is now more than $500,000 (£371,000) staked on whether Russia will capture Kostyantynivka this year . Now everyone has a chance to profit from war ! Thank you Polymarket
'Capitalism': the inevitable reduction of all humanity to fungible currency
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Capitalism neither prevents gulags nor famines. And you can bet (pun intended) someone will create them on purpose if they can make profit from it
Please do share what capitalist country had a famine in the past century.
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Capitalism neither prevents gulags nor famines. And you can bet (pun intended) someone will create them on purpose if they can make profit from it
Please do share what capitalist country had a famine in the past century.
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Capitalism neither prevents gulags nor famines. And you can bet (pun intended) someone will create them on purpose if they can make profit from it
Except it does? Capitalist countries don’t seem to have any famines. You could argue that for profit prisons are similar to gulags in some ways but the important differences are so vast it’s hard to compare them honestly.
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Betting with one another predates any notion of capitalism, or economy.
True, but capitalism eventually makes gambling the whole economy.
People using it to gamble has more to do with gambling people than with capitalism people. You can have gambling in communism or socialism, only stakes there are limited because the fruit of the labor of people doesn't belong to them like in capitalism.
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Capitalism neither prevents gulags nor famines. And you can bet (pun intended) someone will create them on purpose if they can make profit from it
Please do share what capitalist country had a famine in the past century.
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/26/g-s1-115240/iran-war-strait-h...
(I'm being snarky here, but COVID definitely exposed some supply chain vulnerabilities.)