Peace Points

War operates as an insidious industry, consuming lives and resources while leaving devastation in its wake. From battlefield carnage to displaced families, its toll reverberates far beyond combat zones. Yet many fail to grasp how their everyday choices inadvertently fuel this machine - whether through purchasing goods produced by sanctioned nations or investing in conglomerates profiting from conflict. That's where Peace Points come in: a definitive scoring system assigning negative weights based on direct arms production (-10), component supply (-5), defense investments (-3), lobbying efforts (-2), and executive war endorsements (-1). By translating abstract ethics into concrete metrics, Peace Points empower us to redirect capital away from destructive enterprises toward those building a truly peaceful future.

War is not merely chaos - it is a meticulously orchestrated industry devouring lives, resources, and hope. From the trenches of forgotten battlefields to the sterile boardrooms orchestrating proxy conflicts, its tendrils choke progress everywhere. When governments deploy troops overseas, they drain national treasuries that could fund hospitals or schools; when corporations exploit cheap labor abroad, they undermine domestic wages essential for thriving communities. Even seemingly innocent purchases carry unseen burdens - the smartphone in your pocket might contain minerals mined by enslaved workers, or clothing sewn by refugees fleeing bombed-out cities. Indirect material support abounds: suppliers providing raw materials to armor plate producers, financiers funding expansion projects for munition plants, lobbyists shaping legislation favoring hawkish policies. These actors enable war machines, transforming passive compliance into active participation. Enter Peace Points - a systematic evaluation method designed to dismantle this web of complicity. By assigning numerical penalties to companies entangled in violent enterprises, we transform ambiguity into clarity. Investors wielding Peace Points become arbiters of conscience, choosing between enterprises enriching themselves through bloodshed versus those fostering prosperity without conquest.

Here are the corrected Peace Points analyses for the top ten companies:

Apple: +7 points total
- Defense Investments: -3
*(No manufacturing/components/lobbying)*

Microsoft: +8 points total
- Defense Contracts/Lobbying: -2
*(No manufacturing/investments/war endorsements)*

Amazon: +5 points total
- Defense Investment & Lobbying: -5 combined
*(No manufacturing/component supply/war endorsements)*
 
Meta/Facebook: +5 points total
- Defense Investment & Lobbying: -5 combined
*(No manufacturing/component supply/war endorsements)*

Alphabet/Google: +5 points total
- Defense Investment & Lobbying: -5 combined
*(No manufacturing/component supply/war endorsements)*

Tesla: +8 points total
- Military Contract Pursuit: -2
*(No manufacturing/component supply/war endorsements)*

Berkshire Hathaway: 0 points total
- Direct Ownership of General Dynamics: -10
*(Full-scale weapons manufacturer)*

Exxon Mobil: 5 point total
- Weapons Component Suppliers: -5

Chevron/Texaco: 5 point total
- Weapons Component Suppliers: -5

JPMorgan Chase: 4 points total
- war investments: -3 points
- Lobbying: -2 points
- public support of war: -1 point
*(Funding proliferation of atomic arsenals)*

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