Honest question: How can we build a counter weight to the Military Industrial Complex? Is it somehow possible to build for-profit companies that leverage the logic of capitalism but don't chime into the BS of the MIC, and instead push on a policy level for deescalation and peaceful International relations? Companies, that when there is a new bill on funding foreign wars would start investing money into lobbying the rejection of such legislation?
Yes, war is profitable, but peace is even better for business. There are way more companies who win from their countries having good relations with other states than those who win from selling implements of war. So there should be some way to get more lobbying for sane and business-friendly policies going rather than this insane drive toward military Keynesianism.
There should be a way to use the logic of capitalism against warmongering, no? Can't we go beyong NGO's that are funding dependent into building structures that sell stuff that then allows them to lobby for more pro-trade relations? I know this might sound overly neo-liberal, but I'm more thinking of a Civil Industrial Complex for Peace (CIC4P).... how could something like that be created.... Elon, any ideas?
1 июн 2024