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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: how does going to war make a country richer?
gpt
It doesn't usually make the country as a whole richer, but it might make the small group of people in charge richer, especially if they own or have investments in industries that would profit from war (weapons industries). Additionally, war can be a way of getting new land and resources which can also add wealth. Again, usually this wealth only gets earned by a small already rich group while the common people don't profit from their country being in war.