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>> Nobody is ever going to say "I'm sure glad we spent two trillion dollars on the F-35." Nobody cares about your server backups either. Unless something goes
by unwise-exe 2y ago
>> Nobody is ever going to say "I'm sure glad we spent two trillion dollars on the F-35."
Nobody cares about your server backups either. Unless something goes wrong and you need them.
- brookst 2y agoPerfect analogy. Some companies overspend on disaster recovery preparedness. Most do not. But it’s very hard to call any spending in that area “wasted”.
- bastawhiz 2y ago$2tn for 630 jets isn't "overspending"???
- brookst 2y agoHow much would you pay to deter a way that’s likely to go nuclear? You think maybe $500B tops? I’m not defending this program, I’m saying that money spend on insurance that goes unused is easy to call “wasted”, but that is bad logic.
- bastawhiz 2y agoExactly! Why can we fund defense projects with no cap on budget that might never become operational but we have to pick and choose which areas of science we're going to put money towards? That's the whole point: nobody is glad we spent the money. Surely instead of inventing an almost unimaginably expensive jet, we could have spent that money on less ambitious jets that are many orders of magnitude cheaper? Ukraine doesn't have any F-35s and yet they're holding their own against Russia. Why is there a double standard?