War is profitable to folks that supply them as fight it. Nothing is more profitable, as you point out: people will pay any price to save the lives they care about. This makes for wide margins.

I have been on a research binge of late. I have learned that human intelligence has decreased markedly in the last ~20kya. Neanderthals had brains about 20% larger than our own, but Cro Magnons had larger brains yet. We have been serially domesticated ever since, and there can be no end of the enemies we can be fired at when D&C enables we ourselves to become our own worst enemies.

This only matters as long as institutions wield more power in society than individuals. As distribution of means of production continue to increase the power of individuals to produce wealth without depending on institutions, and to keep that wealth despite the efforts of thugs to take it, institutions will lose power relative to individuals.

In time, the restoration of the natural tendency of more intelligent individuals to better succeed due to their improved ability to secure their progeny in prosperity will reverse the devolution that has degraded human mental capacity during the long domestication of man. Of course this will only happen if we can prevent becoming chemically castrated and retain any ability to breed at all. I suspect nothing more pivotal to the future of humanity today, and am devoting my efforts to that undertaking.

I remember Mark Twain's comment that it is much easier to fool someone than to convince them they have been fooled. However, there is no rage like that of an involuntary servant freed against the will of their oppressor, and enabling the men wielding the pointy spear to secure, even resecure, their ability to breed will set their hands to their tasks for righteous cause, rather than their would be oppressor's options.

The extant sociocultural control system is grossly complex and unwieldy. Far simpler and more robust distributed systems are already extant, if underutilized, and potential. The distribution of nominal personal security to individuals will create overwhelming advantages versus complex predatory and parasitic mechanisms now extant, and the abusive nature of the MIC leaves it ripe for decoupling from arcane and psychopathic overlords, which utterly BTFOs them.

I hope, when I leave this world, to leave a world freed of the scourge of war, a world where individual merit is again primary, a world in which our posterity is free to prosper at their sole option and where psychopaths no longer parasitize humanity. I see a hard road ahead, if this is to be managed, but paving such a route is always profitable for people driving it once it has been done.

Unimaginable, illimitable wealth and joy will be within the reach of humanity thereafter, instead of the venal vampires intent on keeping that power to themselves. Someday the means will justify the ends, and then I will be content.

Thanks!