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For a lot of these people the MIC is just a high paying job with decent unionization rates. If they could get similar work with similar conditions without the defense part, a lot of them would. Boeing, in my opinion, is a good example of this. Boeing Commercial isn't doing the best financially, while Boeing Space & Defense is doing great thanks to government contracts.
It's also important to remember that a lot of technology produced on the commercial side of things is used in defense, so even if that particular engineer has a change of heart and moves to the commercial side of the industry, they could be helping MIC just as much.
The commonly-accepted way we call worldwide war profiteering "defense" is a staggering victory of military-industrial marketing, right there.
Manufacturing consent
Your second point is definitely something I've thought about that keeps me up at night. Obviously capital is all-encompassing so it should come at no surprise, but the fact that you will have blood on your hands no matter what is something that I can't really stomach.