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Originally Posted by .Alex.
Yes it takes a Category 4 hurricane to cause rapid devaluation of money and empty food shelves in a capitalist society. Totally agree that communist countries have accomplished it much more easily.
I've pointed this out before but capitalists will also quite intentionally create empty food shelves, even without any sort of ecological crisis:
https://www.businessinsider.com/whol...ortages-2018-1
TheseAreYourFoodShelvesOnCapitalism.meme
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Before we go there, I want to be clear the whole point here is that SortByFulnessOfFoodShelves is not the standard I would use to evaluate the social utility of one economic system versus another. But since "empty food shelves!!!" is the capitalists' go-to sick burn, it's worth reiterating that logistics managers in a capitalist society will also intentionally leave shelves empty at food stores. Even if the stores aren't on an island with a hurricane bearing down on it. So what we're really trying to communicate by SortByFoodShelves remains a bit of a mystery.