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[–] TheBroodian@hexbear.net 178 points 1 year ago (70 children)

The bias is justified. The left is correct. Markets don't create wealth without necessarily simultaneously creating poverty

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee -4 points 1 year ago (56 children)

Well that's just bullshit. Markets have brought more people out of poverty than anything.

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No it hasn't, socialist agitation in the teeth of capitalist opposition did that

Without it westerners would still be working 16 hour days seven days a week without any safety nets while dying of lead poisoning

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