[drawkbox]

Technologies advance the fastest in societies that invest heavily in war/defense all throughout history.

Human advancement has come mostly from markets and freed up the thinking man.

People aren't interested in facts or the truth, they want the story.

Human change is extremely slow and only happens in iterations.

Poor people pay interest, rich people collect it.

If you put something out there for sale, people will buy it, somehow.

[sizzle]

you reminded me of one: "the worst decisions make for the best stories"

[3minus1]

> Technologies advance the fastest in societies that invest heavily in war/defense all throughout history

Really? The Soviet Union invested a much larger share of it GDP in military.