How many people starved to death in the US during the last ten years because they were too poor to buy food?
Reading through this, for the purpose of this debate it might be better to ask how many people starved to death pre-Great Society legislation, or pre-New Deal, as both sweeping-changes implemented socialistic attempts at poverty amelioration.
Would you like to compare the US to Soviet Russia which was as far from capitalism as it was possible to get?
By the way, the question how many people starved to death “pre-Great Society legislation” has been asked. The answers vary from none to some small number.
The poor tend to turn to crime or emigration in to avoid starvation. That means things can be quite bad witout showing up as actual famine. Things have to be very bad indeed for there to be nothing worth stealing.
There are examples capitalist countries which are indeed in this intermediate zone of high crime and emigration, eg South Africa and much of Latin America.
Reading through this, for the purpose of this debate it might be better to ask how many people starved to death pre-Great Society legislation, or pre-New Deal, as both sweeping-changes implemented socialistic attempts at poverty amelioration.
Compared to what?
Would you like to compare the US to Soviet Russia which was as far from capitalism as it was possible to get?
By the way, the question how many people starved to death “pre-Great Society legislation” has been asked. The answers vary from none to some small number.
The poor tend to turn to crime or emigration in to avoid starvation. That means things can be quite bad witout showing up as actual famine. Things have to be very bad indeed for there to be nothing worth stealing.
There are examples capitalist countries which are indeed in this intermediate zone of high crime and emigration, eg South Africa and much of Latin America.