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by pheroden 3824 days ago
And all those were done in the absence of capitalism, so they're not apt comparisons.
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First of all capitalism doesn't apply to home grown diy stuff, so even if your argument was validity it would still be irrelevant here.

Secondly, even though I am very much in favour of a social state, so I am not arguing for capitalism in general here, capitalism is pretty much a unregulated market economy.

How would you describe most societies of the last few hundred thousand years?

Socialism and everything related to it is a very modern concept. That was only made possible through the abundance of modern industrialisation.

If anything, the communist states that claimed to be defenders of socialism (I wouldn't call them socialist in any way but, meh), have shown that they were the biggest proponents of monoculture.

How do you feed a billion people through state organised agriculture? Through fields that are hundreds of miles long, so that they can be harvested easily and efficiently by a single machine.

You can still see the industrial agriculture wastelands of this philosophy in east germany today. Wind that would normally be broken by vegetation and the borders of smaller fields can erode the top soil and leaves nothing but unusable desert.

Way to project, not sure how you extrapolated all that from my comment. My point is that when a bottom line is involved, you will see only a few options come to dominance once the dust settles. And while home grown efforts do bear fruit, they very very seldom become mainstream.
Capitalism has produced enough surplus food that even poor people can be fat, something unprecedented in the history of the human race.
Well, fatness in todays society is basically a sign of malnutrition. Healthy food is still expensive.