Next twitter live read for pandemic, Freedom’s Forge, on WW2 industry/economic mobilization recommended by @jamesgiammona
Let’s see how this one goes. https://amzn.to/39IlHMP
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Alright, this is gonna be a Great Man story. 2 in fact: William Knudsen who left presidency of GM to head up office of production management, OPM under Roosevelt (funny how the OPM hacked by Chinese was “Personnel”), and Henry Kaiser, construction cartel boss turned shipbuilder
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“Their foes weren’t German or Japanese soldiers but Washington politicians and bureaucrats, shrill journalists, military martinets, the denizens of Big Labor as well as Big Government — and sometimes the forces of blind date.” Ok, it’s clear what sort of book this will be
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Apparently 20x as many people were killed or injured in the war machine compared to the actual war
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sounds wrong, this analysis says about 3:1 killed in war vs manufacturing.https://www.mathscinotes.com/2013/10/world-war-2-industrial-casualties/ …
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Replying to @vgr
sure but "killed or injured" is a bit of a fake category- if the number is true as stated then the difference is entirely injury, so adding "killed" is misleading
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Perhaps. I find it useful calibration of effort and risk on both sides, kinda like tooth-to-tail ratio used within military. But haven’t cross checked if it’s a true claim.
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