This is actually a common question raised in political science: why do countries go to war with each other when it will weaken both of them to do so?
I’ve always thought it was obvious that rulers are using stolen wealth to send the peasants’ children to war rather than their own, but maybe that’s more of a truism than a legit theoretical construct lol
This is actually a common question raised in political science: why do countries go to war with each other when it will weaken both of them to do so?
I’ve always thought it was obvious that rulers are using stolen wealth to send the peasants’ children to war rather than their own, but maybe that’s more of a truism than a legit theoretical construct lol
:wojak-nooo: Nooo you can’t just go to war if it’ll be disadvantageous to both parties!!
:porky-happy: Haha resolving the crises of overproduction go brrrr
To make it more theoretical you could describe it in terms of exactly who bears the costs and who reaps the rewards.
Basically “if there was a button that would give you a billion dollars but kill a million poor people, how many world leaders would push it?”