War is negative-sum, not zero-sum.
Peace is zero-sum. It’s for vegetables.
We don’t have a true antonym for war. It is not peace, but some sort of coherent nonzero-sum flourishing. Like “tech boom”, “gold rush” or “space age”
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Why do you say that peace is zero sum? Only a peaceful society brings up kids for the space age or gold rush.
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The space age was driven by war-raised people actually. In fact most of the pioneers were military veterans.
Extended peace is rare enough we actually don’t have much data on what it does. We swing from war to unwar and back, barely pausing at peace
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Extraterrestrial resistance might be the only thing that will unify the warmongering sapiens at this point in history 🌎
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