The opportunity costs of military spending are often overlooked (likewise for space travel etc). The availability heuristic means we can all point to things tha

The opportunity costs of military spending are often overlooked (likewise for space travel etc). The availability heuristic means we can all point to things that's spending money in these wasteful ways has produced... but it's hard to visualise the counterfactual case where were spent that money on strong public infrastructure, institutions, global development etc.