>Why do you think a government ends up spending insane amounts of the budget on the military? Honestly? To maintain the value of our currency. The threat of Co

>Why do you think a government ends up spending insane amounts of the budget on the military? Honestly? To maintain the value of our currency. The threat of Countries (looking at you Saudi Arabia) bailing on the so called "petro dollar" have caused our leaders to make terrible choices (like bombing the hell out of Yemen for decades). We are so scared of what would happen to our currency if the petro dollar went away we are basically a mercenary force to foreign countries. > What you're seeing is the result of giant capitalist corporations producing weapons, logistics, etc. that have enough power to parasitize the government. This is the symptom, not the disease. The problem isn't "giant capitalists" are producing weapons, it is that a market even exits for them. >I think a better way to look at it is that we live in a capitalism+democratic system and that combined system clearly has some significant structural flaws. If we don't look at our government and private sector systems holistically and fix those flaws relatively soon, we won't have to, because they will have made the world uninhabitable for most humans. I agree wit you on this.