Did you specifically choose 100 years in order to not include the Great Famine in Ireland? Or what the East India company did in India? Lassez faire capitalism in action right there, baby.

How about US funded right wing death squads in central and South America that eliminated whole peoples in the 70s and 80s? There are entire languages that are no longer spoken in countries like Guatemala because the people who spoke it were all murdered systematically with US taxpayer money.

[–] GreatGrapeApe@reddthat.com 0 points 1 year ago

The East India company predates capitalism

[–] TheBeege@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago

Not a function of capitalism. Function of human greed. Communism doesn't solve this. It just moves the greed from corporations and politicians to bueareacrats.

It sounds like you're arguing more against extreme materialism, where people believe that accumulation of physical goods holds more value than human life.

Also, citing genocide due to use of US taxpayer money isn't critiquing capitalism. It was taxpayer money, not market or investor money. That's government corruption, which is independent from capitalism. You see this kind of corruption in both capitalist and communist systems.

I think your main argument should be the prioritization of human dignity over anything else and an extreme vigilance for corruption in institutions of all sorts.