• KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de
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    16 hours ago

    I do not expect the US to have invested nearly as much money into infrastructure as they did into war, but I think it’d be nice to include it. The chinese spending on military as well.

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      14 hours ago

      Shareholders in weapons production specifically. You could have made construction company shareholders wealthy and at least you would have ended up with some useful things out of it rather than a bunch of dead people and creating a new generation that will hate you for good reason.

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        Except a lot of construction companies are A) owned by the same shareholders and B) get filthy rich rebuilding what the weapons producers blew up and Congress get the inside trades and votes on who gets the no bid contracts. Black rock, vanguard and state street are the primary shareholders in almost everything too. It’s a big corrupt orobus

  • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social
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    18 hours ago

    And we’re not even counting Iran’s war (which is apparently not a war) nor the consequences of it.

    The US of Magastan are a blight and the sooner they fall the better for the world.

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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        11 hours ago

        No? The US is controlled by private finance capital and runs its economy on the basis of world imperialism. Capitalists dominate the state and private property dominates the economy. China’s state is run by the working classes, and the commanding heights of the economy are publicly owned. Secondary, non-critical industries are marketized in China for their progressive role in stitching together and socializing production, but this is not the driving force of the economy. Instead, it’s there to facilitate the transition to higher levels of development in socialism:

        Capitalism is not the presence of private property alone, nor is socialism the absence of private property. They are both determined by the principal aspects of the economy and the class in control of the state. Without analyzing this, it can be confusing to directly compare individual elements and thus we run into disarray.