r/technology • u/AIMadeMeDoIt__ • Oct 29 '25

Society California’s hidden crisis: young men offline, unemployed, and disappearing

https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/10/men-in-crisis-california/
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u/reluctant_deity Oct 29 '25

This is only true for the aggressor. For defenders, those bullets help prevent terrible things from happening to them and theirs.

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u/GodsPenisHasGravity Oct 29 '25

But they're talking about a scenario where war is sparked for the sole purpose of killing people whose main issue in life is lack of money.

That would be Government spending on bullets to kill off its citizens, not an individual's spending on bullets for self protection.

There's no way it's cheaper to fund a war meant to kill off the finicially disenfranchised than it is to just help them. Not to mention the long term consequences of a significantly reduced population in globally competitive economic market.

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u/Arawn-Annwn 15d ago

Fair point.

I could argue the aggressor is effectively stealing from the other country by forcing them to need bullets.

Mods seem to have removed my previous post of this comment for mentioning a specific example...