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What jobs are available for Raytheon that would have you qualifying for food stamps?
I've met people that make literal drones for them but it's undergrad research so they're either unpaid or it's like a $2000 stipend for 3 months of work. And these people are the most ardent defenders of American foreign policy I've met.
You'd have to be to choose the defence industry over any other private sector industry
It’s not just about already rich people. A lot of kids in school from working class families seeing Lockheed, Raytheon, etc. as nothing more than easy money.
I don’t think getting a job with a weapons manufacturer is “easy money”
Lol I have just terrible shit grades and have been offered internships at military contractors just because family members wanted bonuses or because some white boomer dean thinks I’m his buddy. There are many ways to uphold the MIC without being the guy doing math while testing missile payloads
99.9% of people don't have those connections, just saying
You underestimate the amount stem students are willing to go through to get a high paying job.
Those guys will be the shittiest workers because they only care about the money and not the actual work/company. You want those guys to be the ones working there
Contrary to popular belief, a lot of people who work desk jobs in finance and engineering firms actually work their ass off cause the concentration of kool-aid drinkers is so high amongst those populations
You should be afraid of the people who can make easier/better money elsewhere but still choose defence firms
They work their asses off, but not in the same way a line worker will literally work their ass off. There is a huge fucking difference, especially since finance and engineering people usually get compensated at some point (even if it isn't within the yearly pay cycle).
That wasn't the point, it's that they work hard because they're true believers
Fair enough.
I don’t think the opposite was ever a popular belief. It seems that everyone knows that, at least in finance (especially speculative), the people there do not see the world as anything more than arrows going up or down, and they’ll do everything to make sure money is made either way. When I say “easy money”, I don’t mean the job is easy, but rather it’s easy to get one simply because so much of the faculty and sponsors of higher education are military or MIC, so it’s relatively easy to get connected in that sector. At least in my state, but maybe that’s because we have a large military and engineering presence.
Ah, I'm not American so I actually don't know how easy those jobs are to get
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