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* Bengal famine [1]

* Boer concentration camps [2]

* Various indigenous genocides [3]

* Gaza and West Bank occupation [4]

* 750k deaths a year due to long working hours [5]

* Millions in the atlantic slave trade [6]

* the 19th century cotton industry

* the modern cotton industry [7]

I can go on.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War_concentration_...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_of_indigenous_peoples [4] https://www.statista.com/chart/16516/israeli-palestinian-cas...

[5] https://www.who.int/news/item/16-09-2021-who-ilo-almost-2-mi...

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade

[7] https://ejfoundation.org/news-media/the-casualties-of-cotton

You conflate Capitalism (developed during the Renaissance[1]) with Colonialism (around since the Iron Age[2]). How is point no 4 related to Capitalism? Where is the willing buyer/willing seller for point 6? Is your argument that there would be no work related deaths under communism? Who is forcing people to work in the cotton industry?

So yeah, come up with more examples.

[1]:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism#History

[2]:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonies_in_antiquity

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