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[–] [deleted] 2 points 23 points (+25|-2) ago 

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[–] McPocketNukes 1 point 8 points (+9|-1) ago 

While it might mean the death of many through starvation it would save more lives down the road than it would eliminate in the short term.

No one starved to death during the great depression, even the deadest-deadbeat will magically find himself motivated and able when the options are get your shit together or starve.

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[–] 0fsgivin 2 points 5 points (+7|-2) ago 

Pretty sure lots of people died from malnutrition related causes. And yea I think some actually did just straight up starve. Suicide rates absolutely rose. Disease deaths as well. Hungry, cold people (heating became a serious problem for many) get sick and die more often.

The great depression killed tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands easily. It's just the government didn't have a lot of that kind of record keeping at the time so exact figures are hard to come by.

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[–] A_M_Swallow 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

People did starve in Medieval times. This is why workhouses and Magdalene asylums were built to look after single mothers.

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[–] Diogenes_The_Cynic ago 

So many men were missing teeth from malnutrition caused by the great depression that it became a problem during the draft for wwii. Truman cited how so many guys couldn't join the army because of missing teeth as his reason for the federal school lunch program.

People starved till teeth were falling out.

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[–] dontforgetaboutevil ago 

People are still suffering from the effects of the malnutrition caused by the great depression. That kind of damage is generational.

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[–] leweb 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

This is how the Idiocracy happens. I wish I could have better news for you, but without massive intervention by enlightened people, nature only cares about reproduction. Not intelligence, not productivity, just passing genes as efficiently as possible. And every day it looks less likely that the intervention will happen.

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[–] SpeshulSnowflaek 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

A bifurcation will happen. No joke, humans will "specialize" into different types.

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[–] 7e62ce85 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

We eagerly await you future citizen: /v/EmergencyNation

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[–] American-Patriot 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

We could take that one part of Sharia law, lol.