Comment by mananaysiempre
2 months ago
I’d say there’s nothing inherently capitalist about large and stupid bureaucracies (but I repeat myself) spending money in stupid ways. Military bureaucracies in capitalist countries do it. Military bureaucracies in socialist countries did it. Everything else in end-stage socialist countries did it too. I’m sorry, it’s not the capitalism—things’d be much easier if it were.
Maybe military people are just uniquely stupid
Not at all, no. I gave that example because, first, even in a profoundly capitalist country (whatever that means) the military itself is not particularly motivated by profit; and second, because it’s one of the few bureaucratic organizations that will not (be allowed to) collapse under the weight of its own inefficiencies and so easily grows much larger than is othetwise typical.