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vegetablepotpie on June 13, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Pentagon is battling the clock to fix serious,...

I am not lost on the irony. The military industrial complex has irony with layers of richness, second to none. The idea that private enterprise leads to greater efficiency can be thoroughly discredited by anyone who has stepped foot into an industry that manages rent-seeking.

gonational on June 13, 2019 | [–]

Adam Smith had a thing to say about rent-seeking.

Trying to use rent-seeking to discredit free market economics is about as disingenuous as using movie piracy to discredit the Internet.

AlexCoventry on June 13, 2019 | [–]

I'm surprised no Catch-22-style comedies have come out about contemporary military boondoggles.

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