So much of the military budget is just funneling money to contractors as opposed to actually getting results. The F-35 is a joke. The last time the US military was actually tested by a strong opponent was in Vietnam, and was now 50 years ago. And the US lost that one. I'm wondering, if there was a conventional, non-nuclear war with say China in a few more years, is it possible we'd see the shocking result of the US military getting absolutely embarrassed. I mean, it's obvious I think that the US wouldn't win that anyway, but I'm talking about like, the world realizing all the trillions spent on the vaunted US military didn't really mean much and other than the nukes, the US is actually militarily weak?
The majority of "servicepeople" would be completely useless in a real war. The whole thing is just an excuse to keep employment numbers up.
It's essentially UBI but with the unfortunate side effect of murdering a lot of brown people.
Canada uses public sector, Japan uses construction, US uses the military. Well, they all use all of these, but with varying focus.
Keysian economics never went away really and I think essentially every state accpets that a somewhat large degree of manipulation of the economy through public spending is essentially a necessity.
I have a theory that restaurants also serve as a keynesian jobs program in the US
Bougie "gastro" food and craft beer and the like have been exploding in popularity even since we started overproducing college grads
Good thing we have drones then :agony-mescaline:
Automating the worst jobs program in history