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The end of the "Golden Arches theory": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lexus_and_the_Olive_Tree#Golden_Arches_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lexus_

• ARandomerDude 4y ago
  From the Wiki entry: > when a country has reached an economic development where it has a middle class strong enough to support a McDonald's network, it would become a "McDonald's country", and will not be interested in fighting wars anymore It's amazing how persistent this basic idea is. "Once we reach a certain level of X, we won't fight wars anymore." X can be money, education, scale of war (WWI), etc. but the idea never proves true in the long run. Nations fight for the same reasons toddlers do, just at a much bigger scale and with far greater consequences.
  • chasd00 4y ago
    it all comes back to ensuring your genes are the most likely to survive. I don't see any economic or political status changing that.
• aasasd 4y ago
  > it would become a "McDonald's country", and will not be interested in fighting wars anymore Remind me, which country has its army continually trained and upgraded by entering one war after another for the past twenty if not forty years.