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		fasterik 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Five companies now control over 90% of the restaur... "Local communities" existed for millennia and didn't manage to reduce the child mortality rate and extreme poverty rate to effectively zero. I know neoliberalism is a dirty word, and there are plenty of problems with the modern world, but I would rather live in a neoliberal global society than the "local" world of 200 years ago.

fivecompete 6 months ago [–]

Again, you have many more options than just 2.

nradov 6 months ago | [–]

What are those other options, and where have they been proven to work at scale?

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