The money is there, or was..

[strawdog@infosec.exchange]

@stux In discussions with neolibs I rather encounter the argument "the state can't deliver quality healthcare, it would all be bureaucracy and long wait times" or "it would remove all competition out of the healthcare sector and things will get worse and worse" or even better "you will take the right of people to choose to pay for the healthcare they want". On the other hand the US government has a fracking expensive military apparatus driving up markets, competition and technological progress in weapons manufacturing while literally nobody (not even their congress) has a say in what they fracking use it for. One would think these guys see the contradiction. But never saw one realize it.

[notsoloud@expressional.social]

@argonaut
Which is more than Ukraine fired over the entire war. A war of no choice.
@stux @rudy

[woe2you@beige.party]

@StrawDog @stux State healthcare haver here. We do sometimes have long waits because the neolibs in power deliberately underfunded it to make it look like there's a problem for private enterprise to solve. It literally has to be sabotaged to be worse.

[strawdog@infosec.exchange]

@woe2you @stux I know ... but in the defense industry you can see to which "technological wonders" and fruity competition government overspending can lead.

[fredy_pferdi@social.linux.pizza]

@stux I think it is important to point out; today's money is basically an entry a spreadsheet. Stolen labor is creating wealth, weapons, healthcare and trains.

[argonaut@mastodon.social]

@cehteh @stux @rudy
it IS a russian propaganda site: https://militarnyi.com/en/blogs/military-experts-are-ecstatic-how-russia-uses-pseudo-experts-to-spread-military-fakes/

but they have the correct numbers and unfortunately i cannot spend half of my morning to post a fully purity-checked site because i have a life too.

consider the irony that a pro-russia site has more accurate info that most US media outlets.

also, which one of the US ones today is not also a pro-russia propaganda outlet?

[stux@mstdn.social]

@argonaut @cehteh @rudy Take the numbers with a grain of salt, just know it's a shit ton money for the average person

Too much

[charlesdelavalleepoussin@mastodon.social]

@stux

this applies to Europe just as much to the USA

[stux@mstdn.social]

@charlesdelavalleepoussin it goes world wide unfort

[charlesdelavalleepoussin@mastodon.social]

@stux

but especially Euope and the USA