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Off Topic / Re: We's prolly spad00dled..
« Last post by tp4tissue on Mon, 28 September 2026, 12:25:00 »At this point, one must say, we're basiclly the guy in the bunker moving pieces on the board which are already dead.
You look at britain, it had all the "tehcnology" for war, but it couldn't build any of it, because the labor force deskilled as they shifted industrial out to their colonies.
There's simply no time to "bring it back".
And comparatively, back then, the supply chain was far simpler and shorter.
If we wanted to on-shore today, it's simply not possible because of the complexity.
To support complexity, in "DE" globalizing, you'd need an exponential quantity of energy, WHICH we don't have.
For example, In specialization, country A producing aluminum has natural advantage and energy efficiency in the logistics across the pipe.
If we say, NO, everything ON SHORE, you're removing that natural advantage for a system. Now we incur Exponentially HIGHER cost.
The product won't be cost competitive, so it can't compete on the open market, it's also not energy efficient to produce, which means we won't actually hit sustainable volume.
You can shift PAPER to make military industrial LOOOOK Profitable. You can inflate the numbers and APPEAR RICH.
But the net effect of $ spent on Bullets, vs Bread is NOT THE SAME.
If you made Bread, there's natural global demand, this demand is universal, so you can grow the number of machines.
With more machines, you can justify a bigger energy supply.
But if you only made bullets, well, you can't sell that to everyone, it's not a natural consumable. You also can't justify the energy pipe, because it's NOT ACTUALLY PROFITABLE, there's no growth to your net bio-mass from bullets.
Someone can eat bread, and grow the population base, the Bullet does nothing, overtime, the system in REALITY CONTRACTS.
This is why Imperial militarism, ALWAYS Collapses in the end.
You look at britain, it had all the "tehcnology" for war, but it couldn't build any of it, because the labor force deskilled as they shifted industrial out to their colonies.
There's simply no time to "bring it back".
And comparatively, back then, the supply chain was far simpler and shorter.
If we wanted to on-shore today, it's simply not possible because of the complexity.
To support complexity, in "DE" globalizing, you'd need an exponential quantity of energy, WHICH we don't have.
For example, In specialization, country A producing aluminum has natural advantage and energy efficiency in the logistics across the pipe.
If we say, NO, everything ON SHORE, you're removing that natural advantage for a system. Now we incur Exponentially HIGHER cost.
The product won't be cost competitive, so it can't compete on the open market, it's also not energy efficient to produce, which means we won't actually hit sustainable volume.
You can shift PAPER to make military industrial LOOOOK Profitable. You can inflate the numbers and APPEAR RICH.
But the net effect of $ spent on Bullets, vs Bread is NOT THE SAME.
If you made Bread, there's natural global demand, this demand is universal, so you can grow the number of machines.
With more machines, you can justify a bigger energy supply.
But if you only made bullets, well, you can't sell that to everyone, it's not a natural consumable. You also can't justify the energy pipe, because it's NOT ACTUALLY PROFITABLE, there's no growth to your net bio-mass from bullets.
Someone can eat bread, and grow the population base, the Bullet does nothing, overtime, the system in REALITY CONTRACTS.
This is why Imperial militarism, ALWAYS Collapses in the end.
