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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” Word proposals now being entertained
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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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But isn’t it possible that the conditions for war-to-war era may have shifted. For instance globalisation have added a layer of interdependence too complicated to be messed by wars.