[who_would_fardels_bear]

One more data point that suggests to me that the reason we have so many wars, both military and economic, is that there is too much stuff being produced and fewer people to buy it.

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.

[wally_bert]

You are 100 percent correct.

[MeanWestTexan]

We need to adopt the more-expensive but well made model of manufacturings.

There’s a huge market for this.