But you claimed that people were dying more because of the great depression , which is obviously wrong . Now you are just moving the goal posts . So you ' re saying it ' s ok when people die more from hunger , because they also die less from workplace accidents by being unemployed . Life expectancy in the Soviet Union was way lower than in the US even during the great depression just because capitalism is the superiour way . Why don ' t you stop comparing apples to oranges ? Russian Empire was capitalist before it was communist and life expectancy wasn ' t great there , after USSR fell apart life expectancy dropped again . How was the market in Ireland free when the catholics were subjugated and had all their land stolen from the by the british ? And how was India under colonial rule a free market in any sense ? You ' re like the communists saying USSR or China were not really communist but real communism would make it all better . British empire basically invented capitalism and free market .