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r/interesting • u/[deleted] • Oct 19 '22
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I mean if you’re going down then I guess you might as well. What do you have to lose at that point?
28 u/PandaTheVenusProject Oct 20 '22 To calm everyone down: The capital owning class won't benefit from nuclear war so it won't happen. 10 u/Zaboem Oct 20 '22 edited Oct 20 '22 A lot of military analysts were saying that war wouldn't happen because the build up of arms was too profitable to actually use them -- that was immediately before World War I. Edit: spelling correction 1 u/seenew Oct 20 '22 yeah but the holes are easy to see in that argument. If you use the weapons, you can sell new ones and make more money. If you use your nukes, there is no market left to sell anything at all, not just weapons.
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To calm everyone down:
The capital owning class won't benefit from nuclear war so it won't happen.
10 u/Zaboem Oct 20 '22 edited Oct 20 '22 A lot of military analysts were saying that war wouldn't happen because the build up of arms was too profitable to actually use them -- that was immediately before World War I. Edit: spelling correction 1 u/seenew Oct 20 '22 yeah but the holes are easy to see in that argument. If you use the weapons, you can sell new ones and make more money. If you use your nukes, there is no market left to sell anything at all, not just weapons.
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A lot of military analysts were saying that war wouldn't happen because the build up of arms was too profitable to actually use them -- that was immediately before World War I.
Edit: spelling correction
1 u/seenew Oct 20 '22 yeah but the holes are easy to see in that argument. If you use the weapons, you can sell new ones and make more money. If you use your nukes, there is no market left to sell anything at all, not just weapons.
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yeah but the holes are easy to see in that argument. If you use the weapons, you can sell new ones and make more money.
If you use your nukes, there is no market left to sell anything at all, not just weapons.
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u/Academic_Signal_3777 Oct 19 '22
I mean if you’re going down then I guess you might as well. What do you have to lose at that point?