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I wonder if the real origin of war progress isn't Keynesian, and if a basic income, a lot of R&D spending, and a lot of incentive to invest might not achieve th
by api 11y ago
I wonder if the real origin of war progress isn't Keynesian, and if a basic income, a lot of R&D spending, and a lot of incentive to invest might not achieve the same thing without all the death. War seems like a way to sell stimulus to conservatives.
- ArkyBeagle 11y agoModern medical science came to be from Napoleon's conquest. Plenty of wounded and corpses to ... experiment on. So it's like that.
- ArkyBeagle 11y agoI don't mind downvotes at all, but... http://www.napoleon.org/en/magazine/interviews/lemaire.asp http://www.napoleon.org/en/magazine/interviews/lemaire.asp "In my opinion, the great leap forward in medical knowledge, the birth of modern medicine, occurs somewhere in the period between the beginning of the Revolution and the end of the Empire." I don't if or when this became obscure knowledge, but I don't even remember when I first learned it. To be sure, Koch, the germ theory and understanding of sepcis came later, almost inexplicably.
- ArkyBeagle 11y agoI think it's also worth looking at how the French aristocracy ruined themselves supporting what became the United States in the American Revolution. In order to even have a theory about why there was a Great Depression in the first place is extremely difficult. IMO, WWII directly was caused by the Depression among other things. This being said, Pershing held that the end of WWI happened in a way that made another war inevitable in a generation, and this prediction was borne out.