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I wonder if there was a more efficient way of employing people without having executives from the MIC getting almost all the benefit?
funneling money to the executives of the MIC is the entire purpose of the defense budget. why would they suddenly stop now?
I mean that's the entire point. Ever read "war is a racket"?. It still holds up today.
Alternately, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
We could just give the money to people for nothing but that would apparently be more immoral and illogical than having them make purely destructive things.
This makes sense to many people
Working for an aerospace electronics startup, I have SO MUCH to say about this and how fucked it is.
There absolutely is a more efficient way if Putin didn't invade Ukraine, but we can only work with the hand that we're dealt.
Did we not make weapons instead of providing healthcare before putin invade ukraine? I mean maybe we did and I just didn't realize it, but I'm pretty sure weapons were already being made in lieu of social investment well before putin was born.