WWII made our family's fortune, and the fortunes of a whole generation of Americans, including mine. My Parents made theirs in Real Estate, selling their home for a lot of money.
As an Electronic Engineer. specializing in Radar, I made lots of money during the Cold War, working for the Military.
The Cold War was a conflict between the US and the USSR, to see who could waste the most money. The US won because it had the biggest economy.
But it continued to have wars: the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Then the Iraq War, and the Afghanistan War, which is still going on,
We are beginning to realize that endless war is not such a good idea, but letting go of it is hard.
In 1980, my career as an Engineer ended, because Solid State made the Vacuum Tube obsolete. So I switched to Computers, working as a Technical Writer. This work was not focused on the Military, at first. But lately, it has moved in, with some very lucrative contracts that the Computer Industry could not ignore.
You can read about this in Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech.
Americans have frequently been at war, and today is no different.
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