| From: | Jan-bart van Beek <flake@***.NL> |
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| Subject: | Lost tech |
| Date: | Thu, 26 Jan 1995 15:33:49 +0100 |
I know it sound funny but maybe people just lost interest in the
develepment of weapons.
Today most develpment of weapons is backed and financed by the government.
Mainly becouse governments are the only institutesd that are allowed to
own military hardware and have the money to pay for that development.
As you know , around 2030 the government of the united states fell,
losing most of it's power to corperations, and as the corpses had no
interest in giving governments large amounts of money to pay for
weapons that might be used against them, the government was kinda broke.
The government lost a lot of tax-income when the corps decided not to pay
it anymore.
Another reason why they had no money anymore was because of the
shattering of the USA, a main reason why the USA is at this point able to
put so much money in it's military system is because they are in fact a
big country. And big country usually have a lot of tax-money to spend,
smaller country don't have such resources, which means military
development takes a lot longer. One of the main reasons my country,
Holland that is, isn't a major player in the arms development race.
So most of the worlds financial power went to the corps, and to bluntly
say it, no corps is actually interested in warfare. Accept ofcourse the
arms industry. Wars costs money, lots of money. Armies cost money and
arms development cost money. One of the major reasons Japan is such a
huge econonic power is because they have spend virtual no meny on it's
army, simply because they don't have one. That's right, because they
weren't allowed to by order of the united nations after WWII.
Corperations don't have nuclear arms, they don't have multiple legions
of tanks or jet-fighters. And they don't spend the kind of money on arms
development as teh former US government has done.
As war now has to come out of the wallets of the corps themselves, it's
no longer interesting as a means to make profit. Arms development didn't
die, it wqas just set to a lower priority level, hence the lost tech
syndrom, or better the never developed tech syndrom.
Anyone care to comment.
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