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Re:World military expenditure passes $2T for first time by deltaonefour on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @10:19AM (#31167771)
Not "Always". A lot of spending in the military is wasteful. This typically means a lot of people just are free loading.

Then again there's a lot of consumer tech that comes out of military research like the internet.

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Re:World military expenditure passes $2T for first time by yardstick on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @10:44AM (#31168095)
> A lot of spending in the military is wasteful. This typically means a lot of people just are free loading.

Same could be said of any sufficiently large government run programme. Military, healthcare, social security, etc.

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Re:World military expenditure passes $2T for first time by KptMarchewa on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @12:54PM (#31169856)
Not only government run. Large corporations can be similarly inefficient.
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Re:World military expenditure passes $2T for first time by deltaonefour on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @10:56PM (#31175772)
less so because of incentives. Capitalism is a bet saying that the incentives of the the commercial world makes it more efficient then an economy run by the government.
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Re:World military expenditure passes $2T for first time by deltaonefour on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @11:44AM (#31168929)
I mean a lot of people do crime. Doesn't justify it.
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Re:World military expenditure passes $2T for first time by formerkrogemp on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @11:26AM (#31168670)
The US military has never passed an audit. Never. It took over 3 decades for the first audit to take place.
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