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The Australia case is a clear example of misspent money because headlines rule the world. Those millions of dollars could have saved a dozen lives, while odds
by concordDance 3y ago
The Australia case is a clear example of misspent money because headlines rule the world.
Those millions of dollars could have saved a dozen lives, while odds are very high that capsule would have not been found by a civilian until after decaying to a harmless level. In the very unlikely event of being found it would likely have killed only one or two people.
- rvba 3y agoWhy couldnt it be you though, so we wouldnt have to read such stupid comments.
- kzrdude 3y agoMeanwhile air quality is killing millions per year.
- hef19898 3y agoI find the attitude of valueing money more than human lifes worrisome, to say the least. And I have been called a cynic more than once.
- concordDance 3y agoRead what I wrote again. I'm stating that money IS lives. If you spend $100 million to save one person when you could spend $100 million to save 10 people you're wasting 9 lives. Even purely commercial monetary gains can be inefficiently converted into lives via government taxes that then get spent on road safety, pollution regulation or healthcare.
- everforward 3y agoA lot of these "cost" reports include money that couldn't be shifted around. E.g. they often include the salaries of people who worked on the project, and you can't just not pay them and re-allocate those funds elsewhere. I'm also cynically skeptical that the money would go to road safety or healthcare or some other noble cause if it wasn't spent here. It seems more likely that the money would have stayed with whatever branch of government spent it, and instead it would've been used to buy a new tank or patrol cars or some such. Or in true Catch-22 fashion, they'd spend $3.5 million on a report on how to spend the remaining $500k but the report runs over budget and costs the full $4 million.
- concordDance 3y agoIf that money was genuinely doing nothing useful then I guess spending it pointlessly searching for a tiny nuclear capsule is harmless enough...