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Many are asserting that military funding is a wonderful vector of progress because many civilian technologies have their origins in military R&D. Do you think that investing the same (staggering) amount of money in civilian R&D directly would somehow have been less beneficial?
It's a bit like saying, "oh, hosting the Olympics is such a boon for a city's infrastructure". Have you considered that directly investing in infrastructure independently of the Olympics might be more capital-efficient (fewer oversized stadiums and more subway lines)?
If you feed tons of grain to a war elephant, enough will come out that the sparrows can feed. But that doesn't mean it's the optimal way to feed sparrows
Actually there was an study that measured this, and found out that only a couple of cities take advantage of holding the Olympics. That's when the funding was spend on things that otherwise would be needed too
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