3. TIL a lack of toilets costs India more than $50 billion a year, mostly through p...

TIL a lack of toilets costs India more than $50 billion a year, mostly through premature deaths and hygiene-related diseases.

I don't even know what the fuck you are trying to say given that free healthcare is literally the opposite of a fucking gift to the peasants from almighty capitalism. Your argument doesn't make sense and I don't have the time to argue with another idiot an-cap defense force fighter who knows enough about capitalism to say "capitalism good Marx bad!"

Firstly there tribes in the amazon that don't shit where they live, so capitalism has nothing to do with toilets.

P.s. this is a retarded argument to open up with, what are you even saying? Hygiene in forested villages with innumerable rivers to carry away human waste is better than hygiene in one of the most densely populated regions in the world? Like, what is your point?

My point is that this is a clear and obvious example of a situation in which the government NEEDS to step in and provide a service because that need will not be fulfilled by private capital and because otherwise the cost to society is the quoted $50 billion per year. Private capital will not solve this problem because there is no profit in it. What, you're going to install pay toilets? People would rather shit in the river if the toilet costs money and they're starving.

Also I don't fucking get your whole general post because you're talking about government spending and taxation positively but then say I'm angry at the free market when your defending the free market is in conflict with the rest of your presented ideology.

Anyway I'm disabling inbox replies because I'm not a paid shill or white collar office drone so I don't have the time to deal with proving to you how bullshit capitalism and your defense of it actually is. Just read Das Kapital since I'm sure you never have and try applying its analysis to the real world, particularly the constant speculatory crises we're experiencing and the tightening grip of private capital over state affairs. You might fucking learn something for once.

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