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And it's not only about weaponry. Every single time we have to halt progression to fight racism, capitalist policies, lgbt-phobia etc, those are calories that could've been used to remove famine, inequality, violence and turn this here globe into a fucking utopia.
I remember touring the museum ship USS North Carolina, and there was a plaque explaining how at this one electrical station, which was one of many on the ship, there was one certified electrician with an entire team of enlisted trainees working under him. And it struck me how many of these young men may have well never seen technology more advanced than a mule-drawn plow, and here they were in World War 2 being trained in bleeding edge technology. And then I thought about what an enormous training program WW2 was, how it taught so many young Americans useful skills that helped drive America's prosperity through the next several decades, and, gosh, wouldn't it be nice if we could commit to that kind of investment in education without having to also blow up huge numbers of people and the places where they live?!