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It has upsides for the most powerful corporations, who use the military to protect their resources and investments overseas with force, and have toppled and rui
by cylinder 10y ago
It has upsides for the most powerful corporations, who use the military to protect their resources and investments overseas with force, and have toppled and ruined countless nations who provide unfavorable decisions towards their activities in those countries. I could not care less about those corporations.
- sornaensis 10y agoWould you be ok with the same setup except where instead of corporations, all american citizens benefit equally from those exploits?
- jessaustin 10y ago[EDIT:] You propose something impossible. The military-industrial complex was created, and is maintained, for the obscene revenue it generates for well-placed corporations. If there were no money in it, "unnamed Pentagon sources" wouldn't lie through the media that we're in some sort of danger from rural Arab wedding guests. It's a roundabout transfer from USA taxpayers and bondholders to armaments manufacturers, not a profitable enterprise in which individual citizens might plausibly take part.