I realize that, but we are told of how WW 2 drove America to prosperity, and the global warriors have been selling us that line since. War = Prosperity.
—”WW 2 drove America to prosperity,”
Not exactly the full story.
For the full story, you will need to hear it from the legendary “one-armed economist”.
A few quick lines.
The economy is sometimes called a rolling monster; too fast and you are thrown off and eaten, too slow and everyone starves to death.
Short term, assuming you have reserves and good credit, war will goose the economy, but the sudden stop will be painful.
One of the many reasons the US economy kept going after the second world war, was a near doubling of the workforce.
Adding women, blacks, and anyone that could do the job made many white guys even wealthier!
Providing a great number of jobs, creating consumers to purchase even more products and more job creation...
And everyone liver happily ever after, or something like that.