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But that worked out really well.

And the company ended up using that technology to go, well, what if we put life-saving medication in there for the everyday person?

Like if they had anaphylactic shock, we could give them something that they could just insert themselves into their own leg and

And then they could like not pass away.

And so EpiPens were literally invented through the war.

Again, I don't want this to come across as me saying war is good because it brings more technology.

It's more to answer the question of why does the market and capitalism as a whole not deteriorate during war?

One of the reasons is because technology just tends to be pushed faster due to need.

And then it comes into the private sector quite quickly.

Another example, believe it or not, sanitary pads.

Sanitary pads were invented during the war.

I don't feel proud of that one, but let me explain it because again, really good dinner party story.

So the story goes a little bit like this.

Prior to World War I, women were using, when they had their periods, like...

their own cotton pads or they'd make it out of like cloth.

I know in like my mum's time, they would just use like almost like old rags or whatever they could.

And then during World War One, a lot of the cotton that was needed was sent to help people in the war.

And so cotton became more scarce day to day for everyday woman.

On the battlefield, or rather in the hospitals, this new type of like cotton-esque material, I think it was called cellucotton, and it was like five times more absorbent than cotton, but much cheaper to produce, was used to help soldiers.

And the nurses and women on the battleground hospital area of the war were using these as sanitary pads.