• Tomatoes [they/them]@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    This is the military in a nutshell. It ostensibly needs to protect the nation, but civilian industries exist as a result, whose executives have generals in their pockets. If the industry no longer serves the needs of the military, then the military should stop using it; but that doesn’t reduce the plight of a worker who would become unemployed as a result. Who suffers from this tension? Every taxpayer who isn’t an executive or a general with a cushy retirement job, but especially workers and average servicemembers.

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      1 year ago

      Certainly true.

      Right now we have a military that serves the interests of the industrial complex and not the other way around.

      In WWII it wasn’t that way. The government did not have companies that it would be seduced into paying more than a fair value for military equipment