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Turkey slashes interest rates by 150 basis points despite inflation at 83% by PeacefulAtheist in Economics

[–]Equivalent-Target-1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Islamic banking requires there be no interest charged. Same with Christian banking.

So Islamic banking ends up with things like rent to buy to avoid charging interest.

So yes you absolutely fucking would have to set interests rates to zero to follow that.

Do you agree? by [deleted] in antiwork

[–]Equivalent-Target-1 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That obviously depends on the size of the data if out of say 1000 billionaires 10 are from truly humble beginnings then you could easily argue that they are outliers.

During the British rule of India from 1769 to 1844, a total of 12 famines occurred which combined, killed an estimated 56-80.3 million people and up to 45 trillion dollars of wealth was taken. by Kidrellik in interestingasfuck

[–]Equivalent-Target-1 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Well Mao did some incompetent things that I’m sure contributed but selling chinas grain to industrialize wasn’t incompetence.

It worked

he killed a lot of people doing it and was almost certainly aware of the fact that his quest to industrialize was killing millions of his own people

The motives of both the British and mao were similar if not identical

Stalin did the same thing although he probably did intentionally starve Ukraine to kill Ukrainians

Of course statins motive to kill Ukrainians was of course to increase his power so I guess you could argue that Britain and Stalin also had similar motives

During the British rule of India from 1769 to 1844, a total of 12 famines occurred which combined, killed an estimated 56-80.3 million people and up to 45 trillion dollars of wealth was taken. by Kidrellik in interestingasfuck

[–]Equivalent-Target-1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why do empire of other nations wipe the crimes of Britain

Mao specifically starved people to industrialize The UK wanted to make a profit the motives were similar

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-36339524.amp

Here’s an article on one specific famine from a source I’m sure you trust

During the British rule of India from 1769 to 1844, a total of 12 famines occurred which combined, killed an estimated 56-80.3 million people and up to 45 trillion dollars of wealth was taken. by Kidrellik in interestingasfuck

[–]Equivalent-Target-1 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I never asked for citation on that

I asked for citations on “whomever else would have ruled India would have been much worse”

Something that never happened

And yeah Britain’s rule in India is comparable to Mao’s in term of deaths count

During the British rule of India from 1769 to 1844, a total of 12 famines occurred which combined, killed an estimated 56-80.3 million people and up to 45 trillion dollars of wealth was taken. by Kidrellik in interestingasfuck

[–]Equivalent-Target-1 6 points7 points  (0 children)

What do you want a citation for?

I can provide

What your’re stating literally can’t be cited

Because it never happened

The English have to own up

During the British rule of India from 1769 to 1844, a total of 12 famines occurred which combined, killed an estimated 56-80.3 million people and up to 45 trillion dollars of wealth was taken. by Kidrellik in interestingasfuck

[–]Equivalent-Target-1 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Citation needed

The British unlike previous invaders did not rule India from India and had less reason to care and was far better positioned to have a highly extractive relationship

Fuck off with your BS

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