It doesn’t matter what percentage of a budget is what. If a government is corrupt to the point of absurdity, the spending is largely ineffective.
The tax dollars were captured and the value of what theyre being used for is siphoned by middlemen (insurance in health care, middlemen inflating prices in the military) and as a result the prices in both examples are no longer attached to reality.
Maybe look into seeing if everyone else would be ok with that as an exit strategy? It’s being tried in a few places and there’s a firm(s?) that guide ownership who wants to sell to the employees.
Very context dependant, I’d imagine
Incoming graduates saw an entire generation go to college at the highest rates ever just to find a job market that left a record number of them with debt still on their name more than a decade later.
What were once institutions devoted to academia, have become corporate training camps ran by a board that runs the institution with a corporate mentality, and they enrich themselves commesurately.
I’ll keep it going:
Don’t forget about the time Initech had it’s credit union hacked with a virus that was supposed to only take a negligible percentage of each transaction but the programmer figured he must have “put the decimal in the wrong place or something.”
The group got away under pretty mysterious circumstances…
They’re idolized? I would’ve probably been an abider ☹️
Gears of War. You know the one.
And Dead Island.
Yeah I don’t get why the creator didn’t post his pic?
Coffee. The Internet told me it’s going to get insanely expensive so I like to savor it while I can.
If you think corruption is a one-party issue, I’d like some of the drugs you’re taking
I gotta stop using chrome on my phone 😔
“Reviewing the ad spending from the Harris campaign, it’s clear that the bulk of the money was funneled through firms run or owned by Democratic Party insiders.”
Bruh. Rn the comments are about how the DP can better leverage ad spending and I’m thinking to myself these first few commenters have to be bots with the express instructions to avoid talking about corruption within the party.
This article is about corruption. Our government is corrupt.
Fuck outta here with this media landscape shit
Fr lol. Everyone should safely try a heavy psilocybin dose at least once. (Unless you have a genetic history of schizophrenia)
Yeah I feel you. To echo your last sentence, there’s that old study of money leading to increased happiness but only up to a certain point (I think it was like 75k USD pre-covid)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-wealth-reduces-compassion/
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/rich-less-empathetic-than-poor-study-says.html
To add to this, there’s been evidence that as an individual accrues more wealth, their empathy response lessens over time.
My arm chair psychologist hypothesis is that: as the individual sees their quality of life increase, they look at other human beings in deplorable conditions, and their empathy response atrophies in order to avoid cognitive dissonance.
There’s a concept in the study of wealthy individuals which goes over their desire to hide impoverishment from their view.
The more corruption settles in, the less effective voting becomes. This is why the citizenry has civic duties beyond voting.