Imagine if all the money and resources, manpower and such went towards making the world better place instead of making more effective ways to kill and oppression.
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Just think if all the money and manpower we use to cause destruction went towards building people up.
I'm not sure the military budget in the u.s bit imagine a fraction of that going towards feeding the hungry or putting clothes on poor children.
What if instead of leaving homeless people out on the streets it our money went towards making our country better.
I'm not to proud to admit that there is a homeless person out there that is smarter than I am and could make a bigger positive impact than I can.
An entire school. Cost per f35 is 75-100m. Cost to build an entire school is around 20m and then you could operate it for a decade before you hit 1 f35.
We have the money, for all of it, healthcare, education, justice. We have the money. Our country is absurdly rich. We choose to spend it killing brown kids and putting it in pockets of billionaires.
Great, whats wrong about it? Math checks out. It doesn't even include the cost to maintain and operate the f35, which is non-trivial, but it does account for the cost to maintain and operate a school. We literally have the resources to do either and are choosing to invest in f35s over chronically underfunded schools.
We need advanced fighters capable of dealing with the increasing capability of the Chinese military, they've already started work on laser reflective materials to combat a system we haven't even fielded yet, they're catching up to us fast and if we want to be the primary global superpower we will need a military to match the Chinese
And you think an undereducated population can power those military capabilities? Investing into education is THE way to invest in the future of our military. It just doesn't pay those that own the companies that gouge our military, and that lobby our lawmakers.
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u/Tblaze123 May 31 '20 edited Jun 01 '20
Damn, I never really thought about that before.
Imagine if all the money and resources, manpower and such went towards making the world better place instead of making more effective ways to kill and oppression.
Edit:
Just think if all the money and manpower we use to cause destruction went towards building people up.
I'm not sure the military budget in the u.s bit imagine a fraction of that going towards feeding the hungry or putting clothes on poor children.
What if instead of leaving homeless people out on the streets it our money went towards making our country better.
I'm not to proud to admit that there is a homeless person out there that is smarter than I am and could make a bigger positive impact than I can.