(08-03-2022, 09:49 AM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(08-03-2022, 09:30 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: I couldn’t get past the intro. Exasperated tones, edgy music, flash editing and fast zooms quickly tune me out. 

Making profits from war is nothing new. Daddy Warbucks was conceived as a character in the Little Orphan Annie comic strip a hundred years ago.

Holding up stacks of paper and calling them "documents" was a bit over the top, too.  Everything he had in his hand was publicly available financial statements that can be printed straight off the internet.  Then he goes "Oh, my God, I've discovered defense industries make money producing weapons!"  Well, duh.  And CEOs have bonuses tied to profits.  Yep.  And sometimes, believe it or not, the government gets cheated.  Yep.

The fact that our industries make money when we fight a war is one of the reasons we're so damn good at it.

It's just not that they make money... it's how they exploit our system to profit. That was not a thorough video, but, let's be honest, if I put a 2 hour, in depth video, how many of you would even watch it? I posted something I thought was short enough to start a discussion about something we should be talking about more regularly. But, whatever... let's keep going on about whichever poster annoys you.

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