The Star Wars universe includes nice eye candy, but everything that happens violates every known principle of economics.
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Example: for the cost of building Imperial Star Destroyers, the Empire/First Order/whatever could bribe everybody in the rebellion with their own luxury moon. #welfarestate
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For less than the cost of going to war, the U.S. could bribe everyone in power in N. Korea to quit.
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Isn't that what is happening in a week?
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friendly reminder that the titular wars are happening because two factions of space wizards are using the fighting sides as a way to settle their scores, and their "scores" are due to shenanigans of superpowered microsymbiotes in their bodies
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And for the cost of building prisons, the US government could just give free stuff to thieves and buy prostitutes for rapists!
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Star Destroyers are an investment in deterrence. Ideally, one star destroyer can keep order in a wide area of space, because no individual group wants to be the first to step out of line, even if collectively they could destroy it.
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I doubt that is actually true - for one thing we have no canonical numbers on the total population of the Empire - easy to imagine as %gdp its no higher than the US. Also stock/flow confusion - fleets are built over decades. See eg total value of US surface fleet.
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