Not just money. Natural resources too. Goes back to WW1 and 2.
I like your thought about "someone else's Utopia on your dime". It really hits the nail on the head.
These may look like Monopoly houses, but they are part of a 10,000-unit housing project in Ixtapaluca, Mexico. The picture was shot from the air, and is real, or so says the helicopter pilot who took them. Still, it looks so surreal, youd swear it was a digital rendering.
Don'tcha just love the socialists vision of your future?
Nam Vet