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Rationing was at least as much about making everyone feel involved in the war effort as it was about actual material savings. https://www.nps.gov/articles/rati
by drewcoo 4y ago
Rationing was at least as much about making everyone feel involved in the war effort as it was about actual material savings.
https://www.nps.gov/articles/rationing-in-wwii.htm https://www.nps.gov/articles/rationing-in-wwii.htm
I tend to think the TSA measures to fight terror fall into the same category. More of a psychological operation on the public than anything effective.
- jghn 4y agoTSA makes a lot more sense when one views it as a jobs program
- basilgohar 4y agoThere are so many more things people can work at and actually benefit society than security theater and public harassment.
- jghn 4y agoyes. Note I didn't say it was a good thing. Just that it makes more sense that it exists.
- ARandomerDude 4y ago
- tmpz22 4y agoI think both of those examples are bad because they both have situations where they were extremely effective: * Masking in tight places: air planes, elevators, etc * Airplane parts have been incredibly hard to source for the Russian military, they've been forced to regress to cannibalizing very old parts and reaching out to their neighbors (North Korea, China, Iran) for materials that may have been readily available without sanctions
- ianbicking 4y agoThe market would accomplish the same thing rationing does, inducing austerity via high prices, but the morale cost wouldn't just be a a lost opportunity to make people feel involved, it would also be resentment, possibly deprivation, and a real need for workers to renegotiate in response to different material costs. Better if you can avoid that in the middle of a war. (And perhaps the danger the US is in as it responds to war in Ukraine)