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    411 months ago

    Rich people don’t like wars or climate change, they like stability and maintaining the status quo

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        -211 months ago

        Which weapons manufacturing company did the governement own again?

        They spend almost 800 BILLION dollars yearly on military. That’s spending - not income.

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          111 months ago

          Rich people don’t like wars or climate change

          I was disagreeing with this remark. How does my comment has to do anything with the US government?

          So you do agree that almost all of that money (salaries for gov employees are a very small percentage) is income for those private companies? Not spending, income?

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            -311 months ago

            You said it’s one of the biggest income sources of the United States. What is “The United States” if not the government?

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      711 months ago

      If there’s a financial upside, they’ll find it.

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      211 months ago

      Especially successful multi generational wealth likes it’s crisis as well, specifically recession is a necessity for their wealth. So often enough a war or pandemic is a time to buy up assets for cheap and just hold them, for the rich, while everyone else is put under austerity.

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        111 months ago

        Rather sadly the only things that have ever significantly reduced wealth inequality are wars, revolutions and plague. All of these affect poor people much worse than rich people. If you’re interested in making people’s life better it’s most effective to work on policies that make the worst off better off (like immigration and trade)

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      011 months ago

      Demand in resources, contracts to industry and stripping people of rights and independence can be very benificial to them. Well-managed constant struggle is a way to achieve that. It sure needs planning ahead and controlling the state, but they do that to some degree anyway.