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This is true in a sense but also it isn't. Our institutions spend a lot of resources on preventing things from happening, are successful, and the people who work in these institutions get a paycheque every month.

One could frame the entire US military budget as preventative spend.



>One could frame the entire US military budget as preventative spend.

A decent percentage of the population thinks the country should reduce military spending, because they are undervaluing the preventative spend.


Or because the prevention ends up killing hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. Oh, and it turns out the reason you supposedly went to war in the first place is completely fake.




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