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It's in capitalism's interest to keep more of these people alive to sell them more stuff. Someone dying of malaria at age 7 doesn't get a chance to go bald in the first place, hence fewer sales of baldness cures.



The bald guy in the first world makes more money in a year than the malaria kid would make in his/her lifetime.




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