> to swarm us with "good enough" war engines luckily, nukes exist today, and this is no longer a volume problem. The all-out war scenario is one where humanity

> to swarm us with "good enough" war engines luckily, nukes exist today, and this is no longer a volume problem. The all-out war scenario is one where humanity dies out, revert back to the stone age. In a regional conflict, such as a taiwan invasion, this might play out as you described. But then in such a regional conflict, the "elite" forces of the US is more useful imho. > But when used as resistance against the public good and overall progress There's shades of grey there, because what constitutes public good and overall progress? But you may be right that there's more middlemen these days that are just not pulling their weight for what they output. Like ticket-clipping, where they just add a margin and pass on the work down the chain, and yet contribute nothing.