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Look up the broken window fallacy. There's no way perpetual warfare is sustainable.
by smokeyj 10y ago
Look up the broken window fallacy. There's no way perpetual warfare is sustainable.
- chii 10y agoIt's not sustainable in perpetuity, but it's good profits for the next quarter.
- M_Grey 10y agoIt depends on your industry, and to be honest, and how well your expectations of victory match the reality of a lengthy and gruesome slog.
- crdoconnor 10y agoThe broken window fallacy simply demonstrates that there is an opportunity cost to going to war, not that it's unsustainable. Depressingly it actually is pretty sustainable for the American economy. There's also an enormous opportunity cost to not spending money on young men in the military too - and just dumping them on the street, with a job market that cannot absorb all of them. The US actually already did that once. In 2003. A large group of young, heavily armed men who have really only been trained how to kill were suddenly without income or purpose. That story demonstrated the opportunity cost of suddenly packing up the military and sending them all home without a job.