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The Cost of War
- rdl 15y agoThis is off by 5-10x if you count all the costs (equipment, increased domestic costs, ongoing security liabilities, ...)
- glimcat 15y agoIt also completely discounts the human cost of warfare, if such a thing is even measurable.
- rdl 15y agoDefinitely. Even if you just focus on the economic cost of the human costs (lost income for anyone who dies in early 20s, disinvestment in Iraq/Afghanistan by local people due to fear they'll be robbed or killed, etc.), that's higher than the direct military cost.
- kbd 15y agoWhy is this on Hacker News?
- tshauck 15y agoI'd like to see the war on drugs added.
- aidenn0 15y agoCan we just start listing government costs debts, etc. on a per-capita basis? Aside from the fact that we can then compare differently sized governments, it just gives a better sense of scale. When you multiply by 300M just about all numbers are mindlessly big.