{"id":41170,"date":"2018-12-01T15:16:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T20:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41170"},"modified":"2018-12-01T15:16:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T20:16:47","slug":"to-save-lives-we-need-more-conflicts-and-a-strong-economy-needs-more-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41170","title":{"rendered":"To Save Lives, We Need More Conflicts. And a Strong Economy Needs More Failure."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybell.com\/all-articles\/news-analysis\/to-save-lives-we-need-more-conflicts-and-a-strong-economy-needs-more-failure\/\">To Save Lives, We Need More Conflicts. And a Strong Economy Needs More Failure.<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"article_page_big_img wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/library\/currencywar2.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/library\/currencywar2.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.thedailybell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/library\/currencywar2-300x173.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"335\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article_main\" class=\"article_text\" data-find=\"_1\">\n<p>How could more conflicts be a good thing?<\/p>\n<p>Well, imagine 50 wars among city-states\u00a0that each kill 30,000. That is a staggering 1.5 million deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Or one war among nation-states, say World War II, which killed an estimated 60 million people.<\/p>\n<p>Call me crazy, but I\u2019ll take more conflicts if it means fewer deaths overall.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2E4HNxH\">according to Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his book\u00a0<em>Antifragile<\/em><\/a>, smaller governments resembling city-states produce overall more peaceful results for society. Even when there are more conflicts, they claim fewer total lives than years of buildup to explosive large wars.<\/p>\n<p>Or consider that the Soviet Union post-World War II was relatively peaceful towards other nation-states\u2026 while Stalin murdered millions and millions of Soviet citizens.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cStalin could not have existed in a municipality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Small is beautiful in so many other ways. Take for now that the small\u2013in the aggregate that is, a collection of small units\u2013is more antifragile than the large.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This means that the overall group is more likely to survive if it is made up of smaller units. And the units which survive will be better for withstanding the tests.<\/p>\n<p>Even in the Soviet Union, this proved true. For instance, under centralized control, Stalin stole the food of the entire nation of Ukraine, orchestrating a famine which starved somewhere around 6 million people.<\/p>\n<p>But most of the Soviet Union did not starve, because food production remained relatively decentralized. Each village produced much of the food it needed, so they were less affected\u00a0by the horribly inefficient food distribution of the Soviet centralized state. And cities which did not produce their own food fared much worse.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Save Lives, We Need More Conflicts. And a Strong Economy Needs More Failure. How could more conflicts be a good thing? Well, imagine 50 wars among city-states\u00a0that each kill 30,000. That is a staggering 1.5 million deaths. Or one war among nation-states, say World War II, which killed an estimated 60 million people. 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