Dabbling in stocks, it made me realise that it's impossible to be ethical in the capitalist system.
It's the same reason the US gives Israel money for military aid. They turn around and give it all back to US based arms manufacturers.
Thanks for this post. It's crazy seeing every fucking politician in the EU clapping for increased military expenditure
It's almost like there's a large-scale war going on nearby for the first time in decades, or something
So, how about we try and pacify Europe instead of covering Rheinmetall in gold and submitting to Trump's desire of 5% GDP for NATO?
To separate from the US dependency, and to make sure EU can defend itself.
Those that invest in war should instead invest in life and then we can boost the companies that keep life longer and consumers consuming longer. Strange how death and destruction can be more profitable than consumers consuming longer.
These things kill consumers that don't consume the right things and/or don't consume in the right country.
Well, the thing is, death and destruction isn't more profitable. But that's not the point. The point is to keep global hegemony by keeping the military-industrial-complex rich as fuck while at the same time getting bribes as "incentive"
For humanity as a whole, it's all a net loss. Not only does the rocket cost resources, but so does the building that it blows up
Not strange.
It very simply logically follows that if your system is designed to maximize short term profit, ie, wealth extraction, over everything else, it will just keep doing this untill it eats itself and everything else, or is absolished from some external force.
The long term doesn't matter to this system, other wise the entire system would have started transitioning away from oil dependency in the 80s, when the oil companies had more accurate projections of global warming had than the scientific public didn't have untill about 30 years later.
STONK!
Is that Scorpio superimposed there?
Ah yes, Hank Scorpio, the murderous, supervillain boss who earns his employees' respect by treating and paying them incredibly well.
If only all evil businessmen would aspire to be more like him!
Nah pretty sure that's Bill Burr
A few posts up from this one: UK to buy F-35 jets. Those boys ain't cheap, chief
Tbh those corporations aren't that big.
Yeah but they’re not the only companies in the massive military-industrial chain.
I work for a huge (Fortune 250) American industrial manufacturing company who has major contracts with all of those companies in OP’s pic.
My company’s stock value is also climbing like a rocket. And not a SpaceX rocket that explodes on the launchpad. A good rocket.
Those four companies each have a few hundred companies who sell to them.
Job searching as a SWE who's trying to get out of SAAS and into something sustainability or space really makes you realize how many of these companies there are.
They all operate under the guise of sustainability and eco friendly we're making the world a better place,, but their revenue is mostly from the Pentagon and or Israel and they also conveniently provide satellite images of every spot on the earth "on the side"
And we didn't do any war before the military industrial complex?
Cerrainly not war on this scale.
WW1 was trenches and mustard gas.
Now world leaders can nuke an Arby's an easy as they can order Arby's on Doordash.
That's gotta create an underlying sense of "well, we have it, why not use it?"
The recent Israel-Iran conflict is a perfect example of this. The initial attack accomplished nothing (set their nuclear program back by what, months?) and the response was equally meaningless.
Does this mean that I should invest in construction company
