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Agreed. So it sounds like capitalistic economies can cause famines?


Certainly, if we're talking about their effects on people who aren't privileged to participate in the capitalist economy itself. Being colonized is much the same experience regardless of what economic system your colonists' families live under overseas. And I'd expect illiberal capitalist economies to cause famines, too; liberalism is more important than capitalism for preventing famines.




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