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It didn't cost a trillion dollars to development. The trillion dollar number everyone always loves to throw around is for the total lifetime cost (i.e., to 207

by mrep 5y ago

It didn't cost a trillion dollars to development. The trillion dollar number everyone always loves to throw around is for the total lifetime cost (i.e., to 2070) to $1.5 trillion in then-year dollars which also includes operations and maintenance.

swarnie 5y ago
I personally love that number. That number has kept me employed for 7 years so far and will continue paying my rent cheques long after its necessarily. Long live the global murder complex.
KennyBlanken 5y ago
The F-35B costs (currently- it's growing by the day) roughly a third of a billion dollars each in acquisition cost alone. That's over a quarter billion pounds. To put that in perspective: the pre-primary and primary education budget for the entire country, in 2016, was 800 million pounds. Do you think MPs will hand-wring about this plane being flushed down the drain as much as they do about fiscal prudence in early education expenses? I wonder if UK teachers spend their personal funds on school supplies like teachers in the US do.
- mhh__ 5y ago
  I don't think your spending figures are right. An up to date F-35 does not cost anywhere near 330 million.
- jessriedel 5y ago
  > To put that in perspective: the pre-primary and primary education budget for the entire country, in 2016, was 800 million pounds. That doesn't sound right. This page says the UK spent 31 billion on pre-primary and primary education in 2020 https://www.statista.com/statistics/298910/united-kingdom-uk-public-sector-expenditure-education/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/298910/united-kingdom-uk... (If that has a paywall, try googling for the info, which is how I was able to view the page.) Please help me understand the discrepancy or edit your comment.
  - tcskeptic 5y ago
    Its not right -- there are about 4.6M primary school publicly funded students in the UK. Source : https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/815634/National_pupil_projections__future_trends_in_pupil_numbers_July_2019_update.pdf https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/... The UK did not spend 173 pounds per student for a year of education -- the 30B cost leads to per student spending of about $6500, which is starting to approach a reasonable figure.

by mrep 5y ago

swarnie 5y ago

I personally love that number. That number has kept me employed for 7 years so far and will continue paying my rent cheques long after its necessarily. Long live the global murder complex.

KennyBlanken 5y ago

The F-35B costs (currently- it's growing by the day) roughly a third of a billion dollars each in acquisition cost alone. That's over a quarter billion pounds. To put that in perspective: the pre-primary and primary education budget for the entire country, in 2016, was 800 million pounds. Do you think MPs will hand-wring about this plane being flushed down the drain as much as they do about fiscal prudence in early education expenses? I wonder if UK teachers spend their personal funds on school supplies like teachers in the US do.

mhh__ 5y ago
I don't think your spending figures are right. An up to date F-35 does not cost anywhere near 330 million.
jessriedel 5y ago
> To put that in perspective: the pre-primary and primary education budget for the entire country, in 2016, was 800 million pounds. That doesn't sound right. This page says the UK spent 31 billion on pre-primary and primary education in 2020 https://www.statista.com/statistics/298910/united-kingdom-uk-public-sector-expenditure-education/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/298910/united-kingdom-uk... (If that has a paywall, try googling for the info, which is how I was able to view the page.) Please help me understand the discrepancy or edit your comment.
- tcskeptic 5y ago
  Its not right -- there are about 4.6M primary school publicly funded students in the UK. Source : https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/815634/National_pupil_projections__future_trends_in_pupil_numbers_July_2019_update.pdf https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/... The UK did not spend 173 pounds per student for a year of education -- the 30B cost leads to per student spending of about $6500, which is starting to approach a reasonable figure.