When a bomb blows up, there's no residual value returned to the society. And with that single bomb, several tens of thousands of dollars went up in flames.

And when you set off as many bombs as would be set off in such a long-as-fuck war... well suddenly no one has the financial strength to do anything. So welcome to the newest in the Great Global Depression. Possibly the worse.

You also got the 3D printing question in and the rape to jobs in modern economies.