(July 16, 2017 at 3:04 pm)TaraJo Wrote:(July 14, 2017 at 4:58 pm)Chad32 Wrote: War is just far too profitable to ignore, even when Rome is burning under their feet.
That's exactly the problem. Whenever billionaires can turn a profit by convincing the government to piss money away on something, we're gonna spend away. Private prisons aren't much better. I mean, seriously, remember how Republicans were constantly bitching about government spending when Obama was president? Now that their man is in charge, the first thing they do is approve funds for more military and a big, ridiculous wall. Cut government spending, my ass.
Part of me wants to find a way for billionaires to turn a profit by fighting poverty, educating people and expanding healthcare.
Do it. That's my fundamental motivation in what I do, and I don't think there's any other legitimate way to achieve it. I want to show people that giving things away with abandon will turn a higher profit, not by reference to some stuffy paper about how indeterminate pricing and voluntary pay leads people to, collectively, pay more for a product x...but on a practical level at the foundation of our economy...and in the process feed people.
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