[extropy-chat] What % of global economic activity is dependant on military activity?

[Lifespan Pharma Inc.]

What I mean is to delineate the point of diminishing  returns at which
testing out technology by military enterprises no longer serves the purpose
of yielding information from which to make more durable or efficient
 or yield  improved  technological innovations.

Putting AK47's and and landmines cannot possibly yield much towards an 
improved human condition.
Putting up a GPS satellite network does improve the human condition in 
measureable ways.

One could begin to classify global military activity into  a spectrum 
and rate the
societal or other  benefits,  short, medium and long term  of these 
activities.

This like QALY ratings for medical intervention economics  might yield a 
cost/benefit
system for military activity economics.

This might allow rationalization of global military economics.

MFJ


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