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> That is not how inflationary comparisons work Right, but normalizing to the price of bread and milk is even more ridiculous than normalizing to the federal b
by jjoonathan 7y ago
> That is not how inflationary comparisons work
Right, but normalizing to the price of bread and milk is even more ridiculous than normalizing to the federal budget, which is not excellent for this purpose, as you point out.
In any case, thanks for digging up more numbers.
I stand by my claim that money (and enough assurance of continued money to bet everything on one large project) is key.
- h3throw 7y ago> Right, but normalizing to the price of bread and milk is even more ridiculous than normalizing to the federal budget, which is not excellent for this purpose, as you point out. The CPI is composed of much more than that: https://www.bls.gov/cpi/tables/relative-importance/2016.pdf https://www.bls.gov/cpi/tables/relative-importance/2016.pdf
- Dylan16807 7y ago> normalizing to the price of bread and milk is even more ridiculous than normalizing to the federal budget No it's not. Maybe normalize to the median income if you don't like bread and milk, but how much the government spends on education, health care, interest, military fleets, farm subsidies... that's not relevant to NASA's budget.