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There's supposedly always better situation in the future, it is pretty dubious to claim that wars and cataclysms accelerate long term development.

It depends on what you mean. Wars have historically accelerated technology development, at least in the short term.

If you mean development more generally, then no probably not. The civilian technology would eventually get developped, if more slowly without the major push of a war. In the process, people and resources are destroyed.



Perhaps it's like accelerating your car. You gain more speed faster at the expense of efficiency.


I think that's a pretty good analogy.


Of course I mean human development.

Tech development is self accelerating (with main constraint being human developers, who's numbers wars and catastrophes reduce, btw).

Conflicts provide some bump, but I would say it's pretty insignificant in the large scheme of things.


I didn't say development. I said economic activity.




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