“Also, munitions created for the war count in gdp. But once they are used they have no more economic utility. “
Like US corporate spending on diversity, ESG, DEI and wokeness. ?
Actually not. Shell blows up and is gone. Money spent of Leftist poison does damage for years and years.
All the men who have cut off funding to Ivy League schools over DEI and such are on the left. Warren Buffett, left winger, hates ESG and has denounced it at every turn. The presidents of Harvard and MIT have been fired. Bud Light tanked over the trans debacle. NYC riot cops are arresting Hamas protesters. The tolerance for much of that is coming to an end.