I am not lost on the irony. The military industrial complex has irony with layers of richness, second to none. The idea that private enterprise leads to greater efficiency can be thoroughly discredited by anyone who has stepped foot into an industry that manages rent-seeking.

Adam Smith had a thing to say about rent-seeking.

Trying to use rent-seeking to discredit free market economics is about as disingenuous as using movie piracy to discredit the Internet.

I'm surprised no Catch-22-style comedies have come out about contemporary military boondoggles.

You're right about poverty, and it's a shame, but I can live with the rest of it.

As a human, when I consider all of the ways that governments could be inept, killing humans tops the list of my favorites.

I only worry because I doubt that feature creep is handicapping other governments as well as it's handicapping mine.

Laws about keeping your dog on a leash only work if both dogs are leashed.

Why stop there? What makes you think human beings can do anything efficiently?

The nice thing is that, if left alone, one doesn’t need to be concerned with or frustrated by the inefficiency of others.

Markets work this way, and when individuals are left, for the most part, to operate in the same fashion the intrinsic efficiency of supply satisfying demand is better than anything we might, as a group, think up.

You must've skipped tragedy of the commons day in micro 101.