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Europeโ€™s Dilemma: Build a Military Industry or Keep Relying on the U.S. (www.nytimes.com)
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[โ€“] latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

That's, indeed, my point. And, no, an industry in the sense in which the post and article mean it, in the sense in which it is understood in contemporary economics, is not needed.

What is needed is focused effort. It's very easy to forget that things don't actually cost money, things cost resources and energy. Those don't have an intrinsic monetary value, the price tag is 100% arbitrary and made up. Otherwise, existing in the Universe would require paying taxes in money, and last time I checked, we're the only biological doofuses who do that. And we do it to ourselves, no less.

Things can be done without money, and we need to remember that. Humanity has been doing stuff without money for almost literally aeons before someone thought it would be a good idea to dream that up.

As for getting things rolling, let's not forget that muskets still work just fine with a bit of maintenance, and they're hundreds of years old at this point. Guns last a long, long time, it's just that the military industrial complex can't function if people realise that and don't treat them as perishables. And I doubt we've dismantled all guns pre-2000, for instance. And there are plenty of easy-to-make, DIY-type stuff which have been unfortunately demonstrated to be very effective several times over.

Where there's a will, there's a way. And, yes, it's tough to shift the system, nobody said it'd be all rainbows and roses. But it sure as hell would be a lot easier if everyone started pushing.