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>>The US hasn't even stabilised its environment, healthcare and any number of other important areas of basic human needs. Money for finding extra-terrestrial li
by onetimemanytime 7y ago
>>The US hasn't even stabilised its environment, healthcare and any number of other important areas of basic human needs. Money for finding extra-terrestrial life would be better spent on earth fixing the mess.
USA spends more on healthcare than (prob) anyone else. Basic needs will never be solved, as the yardstick will also move.
>>Money for finding extra-terrestrial life would be better spent on earth fixing the mess.
Let's say that USA decides to spend $100-$500 Million a year on extra-terrestrial stuff...that's a rounding error in a $4.746 trillion budget.
- glutamate 7y ago> USA spends more on healthcare than (prob) anyone else. Basic needs will never be solved, as the yardstick will also move. Agree, in a privatised healthcare system the fee-for-service problem will indeed prevent basic needs from ever being met.
- onetimemanytime 7y agoYou missed the point entirely. if USA already spends a lot of money (albeit in the wrong direction...maybe) in healthcare, how will the healthcare problem be solved if it spends another, say $200M ? You can argue reform, not that it needs a few more hundred million to "solve the problem"