[marktwain]

“There’s no money in healthy people and
There is no money in diplomacy”

Both statements only hold in rare and exceptional circumstances.

Healthy people produce more wealth. Sick people absorb and spend wealth.

Diplomacy can help preserve wealth and even create wealth by preventing war and establishing rules to allow for trade. War destroys wealth, even if it is sometimes necessary.

Sure, evil people can find ways to extract money from sick people or to gain money during war. It is a losing proposition, because the pool of wealth is destroyed over time.

[Karl Spooner]

People like fast money, like bitcoin, vaccines, war. Just the way it is down here.

[Karl Spooner]

Sure, evil people CAN find ways to extract money from sick people or to gain money during war.

An example: Merely owning stock in these companies CAN make one corrupt.

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