While standing on a train station today, I saw this interesting poster, which tells about the annual human cost of capitalism. Towards the bottom, it also compares the death toll from capitalism to that from communism. It says that the Black Book of Communism alleges that communism has killed 94 million people since 1917. On the other hand, capitalism kills 20 million each year, which means it kills more than what communism has killed, in just 5 years.
This poster also gives the number of people dying from different causes. According to it, 8 million people die each year from lack of clean water and almost the same number of people die each year from hunger. Moreover, 3 million die from curable diseases while half a million die from Malaria. All of these deaths are easily preventable, yet due to the greed that surrounds capitalistic system, not much steps are taken to prevent these deaths.
Now if you are wondering what are the URLs given at the bottom of the poster, I took another picture which shows them clearly. That picture is shown below.
Those links are poverty.com, unwater.org and chop.edu. Now what those sites are about? That is explained below in those site's own words.
poverty.com
Poverty.com was created for all people around the world who want to end poverty. It has no political, religious, or corporate affiliation.
unwater.org
UN-Water is the United Nations inter-agency coordination mechanism for all freshwater related matters, including sanitation. Building on a long history of coordination in the UN system, UN-Water was formalized in 2003 by the UN System Chief Executives Board for Coordination. It provides the platform to address the cross-cutting nature of water and maximize system-wide coordinated action and coherence.
chop.edu
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is the nation's first hospital devoted exclusively to the care of children. Since our start in 1855, CHOP has been the birthplace for countless breakthroughs and dramatic firsts in pediatric medicine. Built on a foundation of delivering safe, high-quality, family-centered care, the Hospital has fostered medical discoveries and innovations that have improved pediatric healthcare and saved countless children’s lives. Today, families facing complex conditions come to CHOP from all over the world, and our compassionate care and innovation has repeatedly earned us a spot on the U.S. News & World Report's Honor Roll of the nation's best children's hospitals.