Back in the mid 80s, an aunt’s then husband was a higher up engineer and he told a few of us at some gathering that his roommate got a job at GM after graduation.
His first job was to design parts to wear out in 6 years.
As the global population ages and dies out there will be less demand. As China ramps up production in all manner of stuff from basic commodities to sophisticated electronics and automobiles, there is just not enough demand to sop up all the supply.
So we have to declare war on China, etc. in order to get them to turn their factories over to making bombs, planes, etc. that we hope they will never have to use.
Wouldn't it be better if the World's leaders would just fess up that there is too much junk being made? Instead of building more military hardware, why can't we build a bunch of space probes, rockets, moon bases, etc. Rather than lobbing stuff at each other, lets lob stuff into space and gain more knowledge about the universe and humans' abilities to live off planet.