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.
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rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 day agoAs opposed to ancient times, when war was free.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 day ago
PugJesus@piefed.social 1 day 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.