Why Corporations Are Getting Rich Off Plague And War
When arms dealers talk about how good war is for business, it’s repulsive but true. When drug dealers talk about how good a pandemic is for business, that’s also just true.
It’s gross to say the quiet parts out loud, but what do you want want them to do? Profiteering is quite profitable. They’re fucking arms dealers and drug dealers. Don’t hate the player, hate the game.
Arms Dealers
In a recent call, the CEO of Raytheon quite bloodlessly talked about how their business was war, and business were good. Greg Hayes appeared “to celebrate a potential war over Ukraine and Houthi drone attacks on the UAE as good indicators for future weapons sales.”
Hayes sucks and shouldn’t sleep well at night, but he is just doing his job. Saudi Arabia and America dropping very expensive bombs on very poor people is great for business. Some people sell widgets, this guy sells bombs. Yemen is a godsend to him, even though it sends an entire nation to hell.
Then here’s the Northrop Grumman CEO saying that bombs are good for human rights:
The truth is that Human Rights™ is good for selling bombs.
Human rights is just advertising for them, and they pay influencers to market hypocrisy like belly tea.
For example, “[Joe] Biden’s campaign took $527,010 from Raytheon, $447,047 from Lockheed Martin, $726,873 from Boeing, $416,276 from Northrop Grumman, and $237,104 from General Dynamics.” The current Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin walked straight out of Raytheon.
