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Re:Andy Grove’s Warning to Silicon Valley by twoodfin on Saturday March 26, 2016 @02:03PM (#11366654)
Prosperity for whom? Certainly not Western Europe. And yeah, when you're the only major industrialized power not to be horrifically bombed, you may enjoy "unprecedented" economic activity in the following decades.
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Re:Andy Grove’s Warning to Silicon Valley by jordanb on Saturday March 26, 2016 @02:12PM (#11366699)
> Certainly not Western Europe

Certainly not? These years were known as the "Trente Glorieuses" (glorious thirty) in France.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trente_Glorieuses

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Re:Andy Grove’s Warning to Silicon Valley by forgetsusername on Saturday March 26, 2016 @02:46PM (#11366849)
Yeah, it was great for the survivors. Not so much for the 10's of millions of dead.

In retrospect, WW2 had positive economic consequences. But let's not pretend it was a "good" thing.

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