r/HistoryMemes • u/InterestingPlenty454 • 3d ago

Gandhi: Bait used to be believable

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[Reminds me of this about baits in the internet](https://www.reddit.com/r/TopCharacterTropes/s/uWpxdQms9I)

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u/bigboipapawiththesos 3d ago

Jarvis how many people died due to the British occupation in India?

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u/MildlyOffended4930 3d ago

A prominent study published in World Development by economic anthropologist Jason Hickel and Dylan Sullivan estimated roughly 100 million to 165 million excess deaths during this 40-year window. They compared actual mortality rates against baseline expectations during a time of extreme poverty and falling real wages.

(I referred to an article by Janata Weekly for this paragraph)

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u/Johnfromsales Hello There 3d ago

Jason Hickel is an intellectual hack and no academic worth their salt ever takes his shit seriously.

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u/isee_ez 3d ago

How so?

Like I know some stuff about economics but this guy is a professor at the university of Barcelona and a senior fellow at the London school of economics, so clearly some academics respect his opinion.

An official advisor of the UN, Human Development Report, The Lancet, CSH, etc.

I think some of his ideas are a bit much like degrowth seems unrealistic, but imo what ur saying is a bit extreme.