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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
True, plus sparrows *hate* elephants - http://www.talesofpanchatantra.com/the-elephant-and-the-sparrow …
THANKYOU! It drives me up the wall when people use this talking point because it makes zero sense
Military R&D is the limiting reactant in the formula to increase efficiency of the overall R&D.
It’s a good question. The life-or-death nature of war may be related to the efficiency or effectiveness of such products or technologies. This meaning that a product made for war will be more useful than a product made for the olympics. Not sure if this makes sense
Agree that civilian-applicable breakthroughs are byproducts of the process (thus not most efficient) but don't think spending the same amount of $ purely on civilian research would give same output. Wars and Olympics have an outcome/"reward" and are effective forcing functions
We should be this smart. Military spending does tend to be more solidly in the overton window for politicians ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window …
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