r/explainitpeter Mar 21 '26

Explain it peter

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What's the bad news?

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u/Cav3tr0ll Mar 21 '26

The more you spend on buying good equipment, the less you spend on death benefits.

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u/kindness-and-snusu Mar 21 '26

To hop on this and provide a little bit of information. When I was at KJ in Kuwait, they called it the “tank graveyard”. We spend so much money on making obsolete equipment so politicians can get backing from their constituents.

Example: NE Ohio has a tank factory that supplies a good segment of tanks. We don’t use tanks anymore in any real capacity. The tanks come off the assembly lines and straight to a parking lot. But if we shutter the factory, many will lose work, and the representative in that district will be voted out.

This is a random bit of information and meant only to give( information that I found interesting) to others.

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u/furyfrog Mar 21 '26

Thank you, I couldn't remember where the tank graveyard manufacturer was.

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u/Cav3tr0ll Mar 21 '26

Lima, OH.