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      This image is dumb as shit. The education system is setup so there’s a good pool of people going into sciences. Then from the science people make better weapons and the weapons get used for war. War is used to get the money again and cycle repeats. Arts are for sanity and creativity for new weapons and healthcare gets used in war too so it’s not wasted

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          The people who are working in STEM don’t need loan forgiveness like the a lot of other people who took loans to study in fields that don’t end up contributing to the military. As for healthcare I’m referring to things like trauma and human performance, if war breaks out this is critical infrastructure. I’d also argue that the cost of having a soldier tear a tendon and have to leave the military would be large and happen often so being able to rehabilitate and get them back to work is critical. Once a veteran is finished the government don’t care because they can’t contribute.

          You have to remember the military industrial complex is a self sustaining machine now that it’s beyond reining in. It will keep policy in place to keep the cycle going. The economy now depends on it and needs wars or at least the ability to pressure countries into doing what they want so they can extract more money to feed it