<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><title>HeavenlyPossum wrote</title><author_name>HeavenlyPossum (npub1s0…rzz9t)</author_name><author_url>https://yabu.me/npub1s029r5gtznh06wkxnae2yud5rps7c2ny9re68xakczxfh9w3pfysfrzz9t</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://yabu.me</provider_url><html>I’ve seen one estimate that the total global spending on militaries is $2.44 trillion. I can’t find a good estimate for total global spending on policing, but it’s probably at least another few hundred billion dollars.&#xA;&#xA;Anyone who thinks that coercive hierarchies are the natural human default, and thinks that egalitarian freedom is an expensive aberration, needs to take even a cursory glance at how fucking expensive it is for our elites to maintain their power over us.</html></oembed>