Yeah, you're thinking about economics the wrong way, though. - You get money for mining the copper and nickel, and money for formulating the smokeless. - You get money for manufacturing the bullets and putting them in boxes, and for shipping them to the armory. - You get money for transporting the troops and their bullets across the ocean, and money for feeding them when they're there. - You get money for shooting the brown people and razing their homes. Now repeat with the bulldozers to demolish, the construction equipment to rebuild, the lumber and drywall and Romex and roofing tile, the asphalt on the street... “Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world, is either a madman or an economist.” - Kenneth Boulding