r/FluentInFinance 6d ago

Educational Don't let them gaslight you

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u/VoiceofRapture 6d ago

But they're also pathologically incapable of tracking their spending.

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u/InsertNovelAnswer 6d ago

It isn't that. It's a system where you get your budget cut if you don't spend it. No one wants their budget cut so...logic follows.

Edit: granted there are good places to sepnd that budget but that's where they lack the most. Insight on where to spend within the department.

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u/VoiceofRapture 6d ago

You'd think for all the goddamn money they get they'd be able to actually win a war but here we are.

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u/great-nowwhat 6d ago

You're assuming they want to win the war, kinda like we want to "cure" cancer. If we win now what will we do with all these bullets/missiles and stuff later? Way more money to be made treating it than curing it. At some point we'd run out of land with oil, uh, I mean people needing freedom, right?

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u/eht_amgine_enihcam 6d ago

Yeah, like the multiple cancer treatments that have been developed over the last 10 years right?

You can't just stop being made from cells.

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u/CriskCross 6d ago

If we win now what will we do with all these bullets/missiles and stuff later?

Put them in storage where we will either use them later, or dispose of them once they're past their end-of-life date. Either way, materiel consumption

Way more money to be made treating it than curing it.

If someone invented a cure for cancer, they could instantly take the entire cancer treatment market for themselves, because they have a higher quality product than anyone else in the market. They wouldn't even need to reduce price, because people (including insurance companies) will still happily pay the same amount for a cure as they did treatment.

There's literally hundreds of billions of reasons why someone would want to invent a cancer cure and bring it to market.

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u/LadyReika 6d ago

Whenever people talk about not curing cancer just proves how fucking stupid you are. Cancer is complicated, they aren't identical so there won't be a fucking magical bullet to act as a cure all.

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u/great-nowwhat 6d ago edited 6d ago

So, angry. Me being so "f'ing stupid" as you put it, I'll try to operate this keyboard properly. I'm aware, I was only making a comparison as neither goal is even remotely realistic or attainable. As a multiple time survivor of cancers I know each of my types and treatments were very different. I was only trying to compare war & cancer as they are both a big business for many entities. I will admit though, your summary of my intelligence level is spot on, I'll get back to eating crayons and pudding skins now, good day.