War! What is it good for? It's good for business! -- Billy Bragg ("North Sea Bubble")
this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2023
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Ferengi rules of acquisition:
- War is good for business
- Peace is good for business.
rules
Sounds pretty authoritarian. Not true capitalism :(
(/s)
I suspect they ~~seem~~ see them more as laws of nature than obligations.
Ferengi are the ultimate capitalist realists.
In Danish we have an idiom which says "der er intet der er så skidt, at det ikke er godt for noget" which roughly translates to "there's nothing that's so bad it isn't good for anything"
Only the end of capitalism through socialism will war ever not be the primary focus of the ruling class.
https://www.cfr.org/article/how-much-aid-has-us-sent-ukraine-here-are-six-charts This article is pretty good at showing the OBSCENE amount of US Aid given to Ukraine. It EASILY surpasses the money we gave to Taiwan, Pakistan and Latin America during the 60s. We’ve given more money to Ukraine in 2 years than the entire state of Virginia’s annual budget. 61% of the US Aid is directly related to military training, weapons and building bases. Great info in this article I highly recommend it.
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