• Dozzi92@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 days ago

    End homelessness, 20-30B. Yeah, that’s a real number!

    I am totally against the war, but these numbers are complete from the depths of someone’s ass.

  • jeff 👨‍💻@programming.devEnglish
    7·
    3 days ago

    Obviously the loss of human life is terrible, but I want to add an economic reason also.

    War is just absolutely terrible for the global economy. Munitions are single use. They explode and are gone. Not to mention the destruction of manufacturing, human lives, and general instability of wartorn regions.

    Investing in infrastructure improves commerce. Investing in education, healthcare, and other social services increases worker productivity and number of workers. It’s a no-brainer from an economic perspective to invest in all of those things.

    A rising tide lifts all ships.

    • blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      2 days ago

      You’re looking at it from the payors’ perspective.

      If you look at it from the sellers’ perspective (or that of those in cahoots with them) then it suddenly becomes a very good deal economically.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
      22·
      3 days ago

      Simply not true. All those reforms would be a huge economic stimulus to all of those sectors. Imagine how much activity would be generated in all of those sectors, and activity equals money.

      The problem isn’t profit, it’s that those things help people, and more importantly, it EMPOWERS them, and MAGA doesn’t want that. They wants us to remain weak and struggling, and dependent on them.

      We have the money, it is just managed by people who want to spend it on enslaving us instead of freeing us.

      • Jankatarch@lemmy.world
        8·
        3 days ago

        Also “universal college” gives all companies a huge pool of skilled and specialized workers.

        This is the reason we have public schools in first place. Government is not “thinking of the kids.” Corporate simply profits from literate population that can do basic math and use technology.

        Ideally companies like amazon would pay a portion of the extra profits they made back into the education through taxes and keep it going, but in practice we reject free school lunches because “education is a privilege.”

        • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
          4·
          3 days ago

          Unfortunately, that’s Old School thinking. The new mindset among the Sociopathic Oligarchs is that we won’t need education in the future since AI and robotics is going to replace nearly all of us in the workforce. Thus, education to create productive workers is no longer necessary.

          Instead, it will be more important to use education for political indoctrination, so we will better accept & support our slavery and exploitation, and not understand enough about our society to be able to fight back.

      • TheFrogThatFlies@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 days ago

        Over simplified by comment: almost no one profits from those other investments. That said, I agree with you that the profitability is very focused. And America still is a huge weapon manufacturer, so war is always good for some very important people there.

  • JayleneSlide@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 days ago

    I’d like to signal boost @BarneyPiccolo’s insightful comment, but really everything he has said in this thread is spot on.

    When you understand the nature of game, you can’t unsee the patterns. The oligarchs are all vying for more power; money is just how they keep score. Enmiseration of the populace isn’t even as profitable as a content, healthy, educated populace, but it’s a “nice” shortcut to expanding the power of a few (read: enslaving the proles). We never banned slavery in the US; we merely shifted the cost of ownership to the slaves.