Canada can only be Canada cuz we protect them

if we didn't have a huge military, that literally would doom the West against countries like Russia and China

privatizing the military can be pretty scary so I think the gov should handle that

Ah yes I'm sure china is just waiting to invade Canada

Synopsis only wants military spending if the army is used to police gulags

Just asking questions, no need for insults lol.

The thing is the state is going to be involved with this no matter what, what ur proposing involves the state distributing land to these communities and letting them decided who gets to live where. The thing is there are many nuances with this arrangement cant be ignored

I know your communist ass really badly wants to be at the mercy of China so you are cool with military reduction

but I dont feel so great about surrendering to a country that freely rolls in tanks to run its people over.

aye yall seen this bird pick up this shark?

But on what basis would a lack of financial incentive lead to fewer innovations? the public sector tends to be far more innovative, it was NASA who put a man on the moon after all. people literally leave high jobs in the private sector due to lack of freedom.

America spends more than the next 9 countries combined

And you don’t think we could cut it by a single percent?

No s*** the total homicides are more than the police homicides? The point is that our rate of police killing is way higher than other world powers. And if you think our police don’t engage in surveillance

Do you people just choose to ignore how many times OP said he wanted to leave things up to the people?

Explain to me how the Soviet Union was the most technologically advanced country then, Mr. Venture Capital Who Knows Economics

No. We have to. We are at a point now where we could barely afford to even fight one war should it happen. Back in the 1950s, we had the money to fight two wars at once.

The problem is that countries like China and Russia are spending a lot more on military than they used too and they are actually making bigger progression in military tech than we are (likely due to their ability to exploit their workers through communism/socialism). So we have to spend this amount of money to stay ahead (which we are gradually losing the race on regardless).

I don't know, they did go to space first and made the first cell phone

no where near that level, don't be delusional

the total homicides here are also way f***ing higher than in those countries. Maybe that is the real issue with our country.

So you think there is actually gonna be a war again? Fought by armies of human people?

Obviously it's more nuanced than I'm presenting it here, but there are people who have an even better grasp of the ideas I'm taking about. But the essence I'm trying to say democratise hoe the economy works, if we're going to present democracy as good let's extend it on to the economy, it seems a rational next step in how society is run.

You keep making s*** up it's not healthy

i would argue they leave private sector to go to public sector for the benefits (especially in the higher level positions). A lot of people refer to government jobs as “cushy” because they get to leave at 5 everyday and have pension plans

in terms of space, legal, and other really specific areas I’m sure government positions are better, BUT, if there were no private entities, and the government absolved any and all innovation projects, financially and realistically, they would not be able to support the whole workforce. they would not be able to supply pension plans and competitive pay (although not all government jobs supply competitive pay right now anyway).

there would no freedom to choose which projects to peruse, and all entrepreneurial-ship would cease to exist. And entrepreneurs are the driving force for innovation: the people who take the chance to risk it all for a big product that will generate them financial freedom

if the government controlled all of this, we would be subject to what they deem is worth innovating / perusing, and the people who choose what is worth it will have positions that are limited and locked down for decades until they retire

In an open market, anyone can think of a product and attempt to develop, fine tune, produce, and distribute it

Since you’re genuinely curious the only time I’ve seen this work (in theory) were in small island villages in the Pacific. My Professor did field work there for linguistics and he spoke about how it was the closest thing to pure communism that he had seen but life in the village was much simpler than modern society now. But he observed that the hierarchy in regards to the delegation of labour was rigid and primarily ordained through titles bestowed in the village. The system was fascinating to read about, but on a larger scale I don’t think it would work like some posit regarding direct democracy.

We have seen so many war scares in just the past 10 years, and we literally fought a war after 9/11. There can easily be another war at any time. And you don't think fighting a war with technology wouldn't be far more expensive than sending human soldiers?

ah you're one of those red scare people aren't you