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Yep, that's true. Unfettered capitalism is not without its flaws. But it's still the only thing that has ever lifted large numbers of people from poverty in the entirety of human history.

>>darawk+(OP)
It also kept large numbers of people on the verge of starving while working themselves to death.

>>zaarn+ea
It didn't keep those people anywhere. They were free to go live as hunter-gatherers whensoever they chose. They chose not to do that, because they believed that working was a better life.

>>darawk+iS
In later stages it actually did keep those people there because they either couldn't afford to leave the city without half the family starving and/or militia hired by the factory owner enforcing people stayed there.

>>zaarn+yx1
> militia hired by the factory owner enforcing people stayed there.

That isn't capitalism.

> In later stages it actually did keep those people there because they either couldn't afford to leave the city without half the family starving

I'm not sure what that means. Cities weren't that big. Just walk out and go live on some uninhabited BLM land if you don't want to participate in the capitalist economy.

>>darawk+qu2
>That isn't capitalism.

Well, everything was steered by capital that the factory owners had.

>>zaarn+Fw2
Sure, but that doesn't make it capitalism.