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Originally Posted by dyna mo
i don't make the rules, nevertheless, i can observe them. fact is, the price of shit stamped military goes up. if you want to argue about the long term costs of a future robot army v. human one, carry on.  |
The cost/benefit of a remote and robotized military is just an interesting side issue. But you did bring it up.
Congress won't touch the manufacture of $70k hellfires. Too much profit margin in weapons systems. Thats what, a 70-to-one margin? $69k profit leaves a lot of bribe/re-election money on the table.
All weapons manufacturing has a similar scale of profit margin. And so much of any weapons system is expendable - made to be used up and replaced.
Thats a lot of government guaranteed profit. The most purely socialistic of all economies.