Military spending is a type of wealfare for the wealthy it is one of the only forms of public or government spending that doesn't crowd out private investors, the way public housing or publicly funded hospitals do. The high military spending and the contractor class often vote more conservative than typical for their demographic and economic peers It's been high since WW2, with maybe a slight drop in the late 70s. The current stat of "3.4 times gdp" ignores the fact that a large part of our national debt is from the military and war budgets. I saw a statistic in the mid 1990s that if we had kept our military budget at inflation adjusted levels equal to 1976 our debt would have gone to zero as early as 1994.

I forget whether it was Ultima III or IV but that turned me off of adventure games. The busy work being asked of me was offputting. May have just been a shift of interest once reaching maturity and turning interests to Women and Music. I still liked some other games but more for study breaks and occasional arcade sessions than constant activities. Gen X here checking in.

Fine I can vote with my feet and avoid sites that say "no cookies, no lookie" and use archive if I am really eager to read something.

Issue isnt the days not stayed it is having to locate alternate accomidations with zero lead time at a likely higher cost. For someone deep in the 6 figure income range not an issue, but different for some middle class couple or family on a vacation.

CEO compensation above some annual threshold shoukd be escrowed for 10 to 20 years. That would fix most of this pump and dump stuff by the executive class.