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Uh huh, that's correct, and that is very bad and need to be fixed.
What doesn't happen anymore though is that 90+% of the population was continuously semi starving. What doesn't happen anymore is 30+% of the population being wiped out from diseases. What doesn't happen anymore is families having 12 kids so that 4 might make it to adulthood.
I can go on for a bit, but suffice to say that life now is a hundred times better than life 200 years ago, even for the poor, hell, even for the homeless. Even the homeless still get some form of hospital care and food.
Yes, there are still hundreds of problems that need to be resolved, that doesn't mean that today were off worse than back then
Why do you assume people arguing (correctly) against the evils of capitalism want to go back to say feudalism and not progress toward a just system that respects universal human dignity and does not require human suffering to grease the wheels of machinery which lines a tiny % of pockets?
Bingo.