I have no hopes we will dismantle the military industrial complex anytime soon. In fact, I fear it's become so central and deep in our country/economy/society that we may not see the end of it til we see.... the end of it. And that end likely brought about by... the military industrial complex. In one way (nuclear) or another (major war) or another (the crumbling of the rest of the country/economy/society).
And it's been raining for days.
However, here's something amusing for you: an idea put forth many years ago by the astonishingly insightful and clear-headed Major General Smedley D. Butler - USMC Retired in his piece "War is a Racket"
The only way to smash this racket is to conscript capital and industry and labor before the nations manhood can be conscripted. One month before the Government can conscript the young men of the nation – it must conscript capital and industry and labor. Let the officers and the directors and the high-powered executives of our armament factories and our munitions makers and our shipbuilders and our airplane builders and the manufacturers of all the other things that provide profit in war time as well as the bankers and the speculators, be conscripted – to get $30 a month, the same wage as the lads in the trenches get.
Let the workers in these plants get the same wages – all the workers, all presidents, all executives, all directors, all managers, all bankers – yes, and all generals and all admirals and all officers and all politicians and all government office holders – everyone in the nation be restricted to a total monthly income not to exceed that paid to the soldier in the trenches!
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