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No wonder increasing the defense budget tends to be such an easy sell. It's literally in our bones.
by wly_cdgr 3y ago
No wonder increasing the defense budget tends to be such an easy sell. It's literally in our bones.
- workfromspace 3y agoAnd it's in our blood
- Probiotic6081 3y agoIt's my wife and it's my life
- zakki 3y agoNot really, from the article total defense cell is only 0.2% of total human cells.
- wly_cdgr 3y agoWell, it's not quite 1:1, but the difference is only about one order of magnitude...the average military spending seems to be about 6-7% of federal budget, and the average federal income tax rate seems to be about 25%, so about 1.5-1.8% of taxable income worldwide is going to defense. I am hugely back-of-enveloping of course, but it IS also apparently the case that military spending is about 2.2% of GDP on average. So, again, only about one order of magnitude by a second measure. We might say this suggests that our bodies are about an order of magnitude more efficient and/or civilized than our societies, which seems conservative if anything, no?