[bluegatty]

Massive stimulus spending, everyone in the country highly motivated and oriented around a communitarian / natonalist goal.

You can see it in ukraine right now - they are making drones in their basements in ways that no other country is.

These are hard things to factor into economics just as they are very real.

Undoubtedly some competition would help.

[randsorex]

Exactly. Nothing motivates and unites a society like the physical death involved in war.

I think if you zoom out on a society, you have to have a war regime and a peace regime.

There are going to be coordinating aspects that a war regime can achieve that a peace regime simply can not because the stakes involved fundamentally can't be the same by definition.