I agree with everything you just wrote. I find that a lot of discourse about the military industrial complex gets very black/white - to the point that a lot of

I agree with everything you just wrote. I find that a lot of discourse about the military industrial complex gets very black/white - to the point that a lot of people seem willfully ignorant of the ways that the MIC has enabled their livelihoods. The MIC certainly isn't all good. But it's kept a lot of people fed and generated a ton of research and technology that has, on net, made the world a better place. The reality is a lot more nuanced than most of these comments lead you to believe.