Seriously. The US just dumps money into the military to have failkids sit around and do nothing at bases all over the world. The same money could be spent to have the same failkids build bridges that don't fall down. Hell Raytheon could make a bulldozer and the job corps could buy it at an insane markup and the same exact people would still get rich.
But then who would man the sword of damocles hanging over periphery states? Without the constant terror of the possibility of genocidal bombing campaigns launched with impunity from floating fortresses those subjugated peoples might start to want silly things like "living wages" or "safety regulation" or "agency over their own natural resources" and then where would the treats be?
That's right: in the hands of foreigners instead of sitting backlogged on a container ship or in a warehouse that can't be unloaded in a timely fashion because the imperial core did a democide on itself by doing fuckall about covid. But once the treats get moving, well then some suburbanite kid's gonna be mildly sated for a few hours.
Now imagine if she got the same benefits from, idk, joining Jobs Corps to build out renewable microgrids or something
Seriously. The US just dumps money into the military to have failkids sit around and do nothing at bases all over the world. The same money could be spent to have the same failkids build bridges that don't fall down. Hell Raytheon could make a bulldozer and the job corps could buy it at an insane markup and the same exact people would still get rich.
But then who would man the sword of damocles hanging over periphery states? Without the constant terror of the possibility of genocidal bombing campaigns launched with impunity from floating fortresses those subjugated peoples might start to want silly things like "living wages" or "safety regulation" or "agency over their own natural resources" and then where would the treats be?
That's right: in the hands of foreigners instead of sitting backlogged on a container ship or in a warehouse that can't be unloaded in a timely fashion because the imperial core did a democide on itself by doing fuckall about covid. But once the treats get moving, well then some suburbanite kid's gonna be mildly sated for a few hours.
The Job Corps could even have uniforms and march around and stuff to keep chuds sexually satisfied.
I think they'd have to shoot brown people for that
If only