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Assuming the worst case scenario and 90 years of upkeep, it still would cost less than Hurricane Katrina did. https://www.statista.com/statistics/744015/most-ex
by aaronbrethorst 3y ago
Assuming the worst case scenario and 90 years of upkeep, it still would cost less than Hurricane Katrina did. https://www.statista.com/statistics/744015/most-expensive-natural-disasters-usa/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/744015/most-expensive-na...
- sonofhans 3y agoYes, damn, it’s mind-boggling to me to see people misjudge the scale of things. The total cost is less than 1% of USA’s GDP for a year. I’m not saying we should do it, or that the money’s meaningless, but we could certainly afford it if we wanted to. Never mind the human cost. New Orleans is still reeling from Katrina; countless lives were destroyed or compromised. That’s hard to count on a spreadsheet.
- rokkitmensch 3y agoThe carbon footprint of maintaining dollar hegemony is truly unconscionable.