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> 1.2 trillion dollars on health care every year. 800 billion dollars on welfare. You accidentally forgot the $800 billion for the military-industrial complex

> 1.2 trillion dollars on health care every year. 800 billion dollars on welfare. You accidentally forgot the $800 billion for the military-industrial complex every year (it's easy to miss, I know).

buscoquadnary 4y ago
One could argue that much of that at least produces actual goods rather than the latest SV startup. At the end of the day there is still a gun produced even if we don't like it. Meanwhile exploiting pizza arbitrage is just a middleman sticking himself in something.
- bannedbybros 4y ago
- banannaise 4y ago
  If the goods aren't useful to anyone (and a lot of the military's hardware isn't useful even by the military's own estimation), then producing them is a worse-than-pointless exercise. Better to do nothing at all than to do active harm.
  - credit_guy 4y ago
    HIMARS appear to be quite useful in Ukraine.
gshubert17 4y ago
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. "This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron." US President Dwight Eisenhower, 1953 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chance_for_Peace_speech https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chance_for_Peace_speech

> 1.2 trillion dollars on health care every year. 800 billion dollars on welfare. You accidentally forgot the $800 billion for the military-industrial complex every year (it's easy to miss, I know).

buscoquadnary 4y ago

One could argue that much of that at least produces actual goods rather than the latest SV startup. At the end of the day there is still a gun produced even if we don't like it. Meanwhile exploiting pizza arbitrage is just a middleman sticking himself in something.

bannedbybros 4y ago
banannaise 4y ago
If the goods aren't useful to anyone (and a lot of the military's hardware isn't useful even by the military's own estimation), then producing them is a worse-than-pointless exercise. Better to do nothing at all than to do active harm.
- credit_guy 4y ago
  HIMARS appear to be quite useful in Ukraine.

gshubert17 4y ago

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. "This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron." US President Dwight Eisenhower, 1953 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chance_for_Peace_speech https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chance_for_Peace_speech