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Yes war is bad. The topic was, a strange claim that war caused unemployment. Its been long understood that war created nearly full employment, for all the obvious reasons.



> a strange claim that war caused unemployment

Not really. From the article:

> Chinese billionaire and Alibaba founder Jack Ma believes that improper distribution of funds and hyper inflated US military spending, not globalization or other countries “stealing” US jobs, is behind the economic decline in America.

So the claim is that wiser spending would have resulted a better US economy, to which nojvek's comment seems germane to me.




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