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The irony is that we're all, WalMart included, going down the same chute into the same incinerator. Between costly wars and wasted money on Insurance and health
by M_Grey 10y ago
The irony is that we're all, WalMart included, going down the same chute into the same incinerator. Between costly wars and wasted money on Insurance and healthcare, we're just killing ourselves as a country.
- fowlerpower 10y agoThat's not exactly how our economy works. Those expensive wars are fought with expensive weapons, which are mostly still made here by American companies. Those soldiers fighting those wars are citizens with full time jobs for many years. Healthcare is another thing that's made here and someone is getting paid when we pay an efficient amount or simply overpay. So killing ourselves is all a matter of perspective, some people are doing quite well.
- M_Grey 10y agoSome people are, but when the whole organism dies, so does the infection.
- bitJericho 10y agoThe rich have their own doctors and they pay cash.
- M_Grey 10y agoThat's utterly missing the point.
- smokeyj 10y agoLook up the broken window fallacy. There's no way perpetual warfare is sustainable.
- chii 10y agoIt's not sustainable in perpetuity, but it's good profits for the next quarter.
- M_Grey 10y agoIt depends on your industry, and to be honest, and how well your expectations of victory match the reality of a lengthy and gruesome slog.
- crdoconnor 10y agoThe broken window fallacy simply demonstrates that there is an opportunity cost to going to war, not that it's unsustainable. Depressingly it actually is pretty sustainable for the American economy. There's also an enormous opportunity cost to not spending money on young men in the military too - and just dumping them on the street, with a job market that cannot absorb all of them. The US actually already did that once. In 2003. A large group of young, heavily armed men who have really only been trained how to kill were suddenly without income or purpose. That story demonstrated the opportunity cost of suddenly packing up the military and sending them all home without a job.
- crdoconnor 10y ago"We"? Part of the issue is that Americans seem peculiarly unwilling to point their pitchforks in the right direction.
- M_Grey 10y agoAn engineered lack of education and decades of indoctrination in pointless party politics will do that.
- mineshaftgap 10y agoExactly, why fix healthcare when we can argue about trans bathrooms.