What you don't quite understand is that there are inherent costs of inefficiencies of monopoly from a militaristic system like ours. Sure, all the people "emplo

What you don't quite understand is that there are inherent costs of inefficiencies of monopoly from a militaristic system like ours. Sure, all the people "employed" by defense contractors and military are funneling money into the economy, but it's so grotesquely inefficient and wasteful of a process, let along there are those huge losses for inefficiency and unnecessary management and corruption that comes with it, not even to mention that the smart guys who take a job with a defense contractor to pump out some shitty code or manage a shitty project as a result of corruption and congressional micro-management; could have developed a new technology or started a business to contribute something positive to society. What you seem to be missing is that military expenditures beyond self-defense are mostly inefficiencies. Squandered money and efforts and potential all because our form of warlords are siphoning off trillions of dollars from our economy and collective efficacy. It's really not any different than the same thing warlords to in the places you think of when I say warlord like Somalia or Afghanistan or the DR Congo; just far more sophisticated and devious in their effect.