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GodlessCommie@lemmy.worldM to Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago

Needs some updating, but still relevant

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Needs some updating, but still relevant

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GodlessCommie@lemmy.worldM to Late Stage Capitalism@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago
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    5 months ago

    The numbers on this chart are nonsense.

    A very quick internet search shows that approximately 10 million indigenous people existed in the United States prior to European involvement (https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/native-american-population). How did 50 million die?

    The estimated number of African Americans who died from the slave trade is estimated between 1 and 2 million (https://www.clrn.org/how-many-slaves-died-in-american-history/).

    The Indonesian civil war casualties are estimated just over 100,000. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_National_Revolution). And the United States wasn’t even involved in that one.

    And those are just the three I checked. My guess is every single number on this chart is wrong. I agree that capitalism sucks and has killed lots of people, but pushing nonsense doesn’t help anything. You could put the real numbers on there and still get the point across.

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    5 months ago

    The math is wrong by a magnitude of 10. Total is about 200 mil in the picture.

    Edit: My bad, I failed to take into account that some items are per year. Now the total makes sense.

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