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Tell me, what do defense contractors produce? Because I'm telling you right now Lockheed Martin doesn't make $1.5 billion this quarter by making friends. I'd p

Tell me, what do defense contractors produce? Because I'm telling you right now Lockheed Martin doesn't make $1.5 billion this quarter by making friends. I'd prefer that banks stop making billions each year with junk overdraft fees. It's not like $35 is going to change their quarterly earnings but $35 can buy cheap groceries for a week until their next payday. If they use taxpayer grants and funds to research new drugs then I find that it's only fair to be treated like any other taxpayer-funded thing, make it free or cheap for the public like national parks, USPS, and the DMV. You don't get to socialize the funding and then privatize the profits. I'm sorry that I dream and hope to work towards of a better future for everyone! Enjoy the "greedy, psychopathic" corporations you seem to fight so hard for. Maybe they'll let you live in their new "utopia" city in California if you bark enough for them.

FredPret 2y ago
In each case, you take the most negative aspect of the corporation and blow it out of proportion. Lockheed Martin makes weapons. Weapons seem like a great thing to have when it's the only thing preventing your country from being invaded. (and by the way, we've never lived in a time with fewer battle deaths per 100k people). Banks charge overdraft fees. But they also provide secure transactions, storage of value, and they pool capital. This is a critical service without which there'd be no economy at all. Drug companies are not little angels with perfect behaviour. But without them, a lot of us would currently be dead. And so on and so on. We live in a complex world. If you only look for the worst, that's exactly what you'll find. If you look for hard facts, you'll see that there's never been a better time. Perhaps you would then ask - who benefits from keeping you continually outraged? Only the media, and a certain type of politician, and late-night comedy hosts. Certainly not you, and definitely not the rest of the world.
nradov 2y ago
Bank overdraft fees are entirely optional and preventable. Consumers can turn off overdraft protection on their accounts. https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/banking/avoid-overdraft-fees https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/banking/avoid-overdraft-f...

FredPret 2y ago

In each case, you take the most negative aspect of the corporation and blow it out of proportion. Lockheed Martin makes weapons. Weapons seem like a great thing to have when it's the only thing preventing your country from being invaded. (and by the way, we've never lived in a time with fewer battle deaths per 100k people). Banks charge overdraft fees. But they also provide secure transactions, storage of value, and they pool capital. This is a critical service without which there'd be no economy at all. Drug companies are not little angels with perfect behaviour. But without them, a lot of us would currently be dead. And so on and so on. We live in a complex world. If you only look for the worst, that's exactly what you'll find. If you look for hard facts, you'll see that there's never been a better time. Perhaps you would then ask - who benefits from keeping you continually outraged? Only the media, and a certain type of politician, and late-night comedy hosts. Certainly not you, and definitely not the rest of the world.

nradov 2y ago

Bank overdraft fees are entirely optional and preventable. Consumers can turn off overdraft protection on their accounts. https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/banking/avoid-overdraft-fees https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/banking/avoid-overdraft-f...