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War is typically fought over limited resources. Getting to the proposed step would imply we have a handle on our inner solar system: https://hir.harvard.edu/eco

War is typically fought over limited resources. Getting to the proposed step would imply we have a handle on our inner solar system: https://hir.harvard.edu/economics-of-the-stars/ https://hir.harvard.edu/economics-of-the-stars/

leptons 3y ago
>War is typically fought over limited resource Citation needed The wars we've seen most recently have nothing to do with limited resources. Most wars through history have been about ego/ambition of royal assholes, and hatred/religious differences. Neither world war was about limited resources. >"Most wars are not fought for reasons of security or material interests, but instead reflect a nation’s ‘spirit’" https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2013/07/16/most-wars-are-not-fought-for-reasons-of-security-or-material-interests-but-instead-reflect-a-nations-spirit/ https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2013/07/16/most-wars-are-... While it is possible future wars might be fought over limited resources, that hasn't really been the main factor in most wars that we know of dating back at least 1000 years.
- matwood 3y ago
  Interesting. Something like 'spirit' is tough to define. WWII could be categorized as a nation's spirit and revenge, but would Hitler had been able to whip up the nationalism required if Germany had been overflowing with resources and was prosperous?
  - leptons 3y ago
    Germany had plenty of resources to assault most of Europe. The resources they did have could have been used for good, but they chose to exterminate millions, and then tried to hide the evidence. They attacked every country around them because of twisted ambition and their corrupt fascist ideology. They were most certainly not correct in suggesting that it was the Jews and gays and everyone they didn't like that was the cause of any problems within Germany. They demonized "the other" to gain support for making war.

leptons 3y ago

>War is typically fought over limited resource Citation needed The wars we've seen most recently have nothing to do with limited resources. Most wars through history have been about ego/ambition of royal assholes, and hatred/religious differences. Neither world war was about limited resources. >"Most wars are not fought for reasons of security or material interests, but instead reflect a nation’s ‘spirit’" https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2013/07/16/most-wars-are-not-fought-for-reasons-of-security-or-material-interests-but-instead-reflect-a-nations-spirit/ https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2013/07/16/most-wars-are-... While it is possible future wars might be fought over limited resources, that hasn't really been the main factor in most wars that we know of dating back at least 1000 years.

matwood 3y ago
Interesting. Something like 'spirit' is tough to define. WWII could be categorized as a nation's spirit and revenge, but would Hitler had been able to whip up the nationalism required if Germany had been overflowing with resources and was prosperous?
- leptons 3y ago
  Germany had plenty of resources to assault most of Europe. The resources they did have could have been used for good, but they chose to exterminate millions, and then tried to hide the evidence. They attacked every country around them because of twisted ambition and their corrupt fascist ideology. They were most certainly not correct in suggesting that it was the Jews and gays and everyone they didn't like that was the cause of any problems within Germany. They demonized "the other" to gain support for making war.