There was enormous opportunity as massive massive industries bad to be discovered bootstrapped and built out. And it was in an age where so many concentrated n

There was enormous opportunity as massive massive industries bad to be discovered bootstrapped and built out. And it was in an age where so many concentrated natural resources were ripe for taking. People seem to think of post-war booms as a thing, but the creation of colossal industries and their sprawling supply chains is something we have already done. Might we repeat the feat, double the scale of industry? Maybe. But expanding would bring nowhere near the prosperity & benefit that going from 0->1 brought us. It would (almost) all be owned by existing powers, versus the unplanned uncoordinated development from nothing of heavy industry we had.