Comment on "I might prefer slavery. How many followers you got?"
LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 weeks agoThis is true. War is now really expensive compared to the benefit of not having war. See the Iran debacle.
Comment on "I might prefer slavery. How many followers you got?"
LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 weeks agoThis is true. War is now really expensive compared to the benefit of not having war. See the Iran debacle.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
As opposed to ancient times, when war was free.
PugJesus@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Extremely poor pre-modern utilization of labor in peacetime meant that the gain of war could be much greater than the expense of it, tbf.
Such is distinctly not the case nowadays.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
No. People’s economic output was just much lower, and resources like land were limited. Compared to the postindustrial economy where people’s labor make more resources.
War is still waged because world leaders are bloodthirsty ghouls.