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[โ€“] silent_water@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

we need a victims of capitalism death toll that counts people who weren't born in the total.

[โ€“] JohnBrownsBussy2@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For just the British Empire in India, similar excess death accounting leads to a death toll of 1.8 billion (and $45 trillion stolen): https://mronline.org/2019/01/15/britain-robbed-india-of-45-trillion-thence-1-8-billion-indians-died-from-deprivation/