That's my point. We are most certainly paying for it, and sacrificing. Every single day.Speaker to Animals wrote:To wit: if every person like you had to risk leaving their jobs and families to muster whenever the government decided to make war, politicians would arise to capitalize on your angst and animosity for war-mongering leaders.
Nothing like that happens because there exists no demand for it. There exists no demand because you really do not pay the costs of war. It's bread and circus.
Politics is a kind of market too. You need demand for an issue in order to realize a legitimate candidate who runs on that issue. Demand in politics requires an interest, which in this case implies a real cost.
The problem is that it's expertly hidden from general knowledge. People just chuckle and shake their heads like idiots, remembering $.20 bread, and $.50 circus tickets. Must be some complicated, mysterious thing that we could never understand, right? It's the 'new normal' that prices will just rise forever, and your savings will be completely worthless. But save money anyway, because that worked in The Great Depression, and that's how rich people survived. Complete idiocy.
