Democracy and the Freedom of the press.

It is not some kind of secret that media has bias.  People pick the media that matches their bias.

The problem is, you have to read all sides of the media if you want to know what is actually going on, because not reporting a story is just as powerful as reporting it.

It is a dangerous thing to dismiss an article just because you think the source is biased.  You are then relying on other sources to report it, and they will only do that if it is in their best interest to do so.

So where EXACTLY does profit come from?

Do the "Profit Fairies" just sprinkle dust and it appears?


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Capitalism has brought 85% of the world out of extreme poverty, Communism (no profit) put 100 million people in the ground.

As I sit here in my nice house, watching horses galloping around the field opposite, my biggest concern being whether to cruise the Med or the Caribbean next... I don't half feel exploited by my employer lol.

Seriously though, "profit" provides motivation, and motivation leads to advancement.  Just look at the pace of change since Capitalism became dominant.  Compare that to the stagnation and decay that happened under Communism.

Like I said, two clear examples of exploitation.

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Capitalism puts 2,102,400 people in the ground EVERY year JUST due to starvation.
Globally we produce enough food to feed the global population with room to spare - yet because of capitalism's desire for profit above all 1person globally dies every 15 seconds because of starvation.

In the US there are 15 Million empty homes, but only 653,000 homeless people - those homes sit empty because of one reason - the ideology of Capitalism.

According to the World Bank (that bastion of socialism) 700 Million people live in extreme poverty - that's Capitalism.

Poverty is being driven by the wealth gap; with the top 1% of the British Population holds more wealth than 70% of the British Population (Source) - that's Capitalism.

And just to show how bad things are, here's a list of Capitalist Atrocities:
100,000,000: Extermination of native Americans (1492–1890)

15,000,000: Atlantic slave trade (1500–1870)

150,000: French repression of Haiti slave revolt (1792–1803)

300,000: French conquest of Algeria (1830–1847)

50,000: Opium Wars (1839–1842 & 1856–1860)

1,000,000: Irish Potato Famine (1845–1849)

100,000: British supression of the Sepoy Mutiny (1857–1858)

20,000: Paris Commune Massacre (1871)

29,000,000: Famine in British Colonized India (1876–1879 & 1897–1902)

3,445: Black people lynched in the US (1882–1964)

10,000,000: Belgian Congo Atrocities: (1885–1908)

250,000: US conquest of the Philipines (1898–1913)

28,000: British concentration camps in South Africa (1899–1902)

800,000: French exploitation of Equitorial Africans (1900–1940)

65,000: German genocide of the Herero and Namaqua (1904–1907)

10,000,000: First World War (1914–1918)

100,000: White army pogroms against Jews (1917–1920)

600,000: Fascist Italian conquest in Africa (1922–1943)

10,000,000: Japanese Imperialism in East Asia (1931–1945)

200,000: White Terror in Spain (1936–1945)

25,000,000: Nazi oppression in Europe: (1938–1945)

30,000: Kuomintang Massacre in Taiwan (1947)

80,000: French suppression of Madagascar revolt (1947)

100,000: South Korean Massacres (1948–1950)

50,000: British suppression of the Mau-Mau revolt (1952-1960)

16,000: Shah of Iran regime (1953–1979)

1,000,000: Algerian war of independence (1954–1962)

200,000: Juntas in Guatemala (1954–1962)

50,000: Papa & Baby Doc regimes in Haiti (1957–1971)

3,000,000: Vietnamese killed by US military (1963–1975)

1,000,000: Indonesian mass killings (1965–1966)

1,000,000: Biafran War (1967–1970)

400: Tlatelolco massacre (1968)

700,000: US bombing of Laos & Cambodia (1967–1973)

50,000: Somoza regime in Nicaragua (1972–1979)

3,200: Pinochet regime in Chile: (1973–1990)

1,500,000: Angola Civil War (1974–1992)

200,000: East Timor massacre (1975–1998)

1,000,000: Mozambique Civil War (1975–1990)

30,000: US-backed state terrorism in Argentina (1975–1990)

70,000: El Salvador military dictatorships (1977–1991)

30,000: Contra proxy war in Nicaragua: (1979–1990)

16,000: Bhopal Carbide disaster (1984)

3,000: US invasion of Panama (1989)

1,000,000: US embargo on Iraq (1991–2003)

400,000: Mujahideen faction conflict in Afghanistan (1992–1996)

200,000: Destruction of Yugoslavia (1992–1995)

6,000,000: Congolese Civil War (1997–2008)

30,000: NATO occupation of Afghanistan (2001-present)


~222,500,000+ Deaths


Go on, tell me how great Capitalism is again.


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