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Not "Always". A lot of spending in the military is wasteful. This typically means a lot of people just are free loading. Then again there's a lot of consumer t
by deltaonefour 4y ago
Not "Always". A lot of spending in the military is wasteful. This typically means a lot of people just are free loading.
Then again there's a lot of consumer tech that comes out of military research like the internet.
- yardstick 4y ago> A lot of spending in the military is wasteful. This typically means a lot of people just are free loading. Same could be said of any sufficiently large government run programme. Military, healthcare, social security, etc.
- deltaonefour 4y agoI mean a lot of people do crime. Doesn't justify it.
- KptMarchewa 4y agoNot only government run. Large corporations can be similarly inefficient.
- deltaonefour 4y agoless so because of incentives. Capitalism is a bet saying that the incentives of the the commercial world makes it more efficient then an economy run by the government.
- formerkrogemp 4y agoThe US military has never passed an audit. Never. It took over 3 decades for the first audit to take place.