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by bell-cot 192 days ago
There's a fine line between parasites short-term maximizing how much blood they can suck out of their host, and parasites ending up net losers because they got too greedy and undermined their host's longer-term health.

Historically, military grafters and war profiteers haven't been know for either their long-term thinking, or their judgement about fine lines.