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Originally Posted by RainMaker
One of the few benefits of a plutocracy is that it quells great civil unrest.
Business is the crux of the United States and any major conflicts would be bad for business. We've killed 200,000 this year to make sure the DOW stayed up. Plenty more where that came from too.
Once a conflict in this country starts costing the wealthiest some money, they'll make sure it ends.
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I really want to believe this. However, it's also been said in a lot of places that war is the most profitable enterprise of all. So I'm not certain we're not being driven towards it towards those ends.
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