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Capitalism will be the end of humanity
I say bring it on. This place, earth, is a shit hole.
Nah, earth is pretty cool. The wealthy are just unfortunately plundering and ruining this great planet.
I would agree but too many people are just filling in the cracks. Most people are “Me, myself and I” only and for a better place we need a group effort.
While privately acknowledging conflict is good for business, the defense industry and its financiers publicly claim they are simply doing America’s bidding. As Lockheed Martin CEO James Taiclet once said, “It’s only up to us to step to what we’ve been asked to do and we’re just trying to do that in a more effective way, and that’s our role.” After all, it was the U.S. government — not Lockheed Martin — that came to Israel’s defense and intercepted the majority of Iran’s missiles.
But this “we just do what we’re told” defense doesn’t quite work given that defense contractors are actively shaping U.S. foreign policy through lobbying and campaign contributions, among other tactics. Aaron Acosta, program director at Investor Advocates for Social Justice, told Responsible Statecraft that defense contractors “are often the ones creating demand by lobbying the U.S. government and pushing for sales of these weapons.”
Of course they are.
Ferengi rules of acquisition:
34 - War is good for business.
Ah, the rich profiting from every crisis, the system working as intended. Good job, people!
