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

[Lifespan Pharma Inc.]

Dirk Bruere wrote:

> Lifespan Pharma Inc. wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>
> The problem is that actually deploying weapons has no economic benefit 
> whatsoever - just the reverse.
> If, say, the military obsession was replaced by a space colonisation 
> obsession I think we would see all the benefits we currently get from 
> military spending plus a 'deployment benefit' of vast magnitude.
>
To date the "deployment benefit"   might be justified in the creation of 
a globalization of economics and
social structures but what I suggest is that it  should be quantified as 
to  the exact costing  of this exercise.

Just like a  QALY  (Quality Adjusted Life Year) of say $1,000,000  being 
unjustifyable in most cases by a public healthcare system a similar 
QAMTE (Quality Adjusted Military Technology Event) should seek to 
measure the cost VS the
measureable impacts.

One could do historical practice case studies such as "WW2",  'The 
Berlin Wall" , "The formation of the EU" or "Iraq invasion"
to get a feel for the methodology, then apply the model to current and 
future "Military Technology Business Cases".

MFJ


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