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American soft power enables a multitude of benefits to US taxpayers, but as a higher-order effect. Leaders who only apply first-order thinking will disrupt comp

American soft power enables a multitude of benefits to US taxpayers, but as a higher-order effect. Leaders who only apply first-order thinking will disrupt complex systems without understanding them.

ahmeneeroe-v2 2y ago
At what cost to those US taxpayers? Leaders who only look at benefits without understanding costs will bankrupt the American people.
- darth_avocado 2y ago
  Why are you not questioning the defense budget then? Aid like this is mutually beneficial. Countries get free medicine, US gets favorable trade deals, the money spent stays with US companies and flows down to US taxpayers in terms of wages and taxes the companies making the drugs pay back. But if you think that’s not beneficial, then why do we need trillions every year for defense?
  - throw678937 2y ago
    This is not a direct response, but as an aside, defense spending really has fallen in recent decades. It's not the War on Terror days anymore: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?locations=US https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?locat...
- 8note 2y ago
  a naive guess would be about negative 33 trillion dollars cost to US taxpayers, the current debt. but whats the costs overall of changing the official US name of "gulf of mexico" to "golf of mexico" or the cost to everyone of all this disruption? whats the costs ive had to pay from Turmp bungling the covid response? how many bungled responses am i going to have to pay for because trump doesnt want the US to have a leading role in the WHO? the cost of all these deportions? both immediate and future? why am i paying for this RTO mandate that Musk wants to run? whats the cost of all these tariffs trump's about to put in? wheres my opt out?
  - ahmeneeroe-v2 2y ago
    The election. Most of those things lost the election so here we are.
- bamboozled 2y ago
  Stop asking about the costs and think of the benefits, you as an American, being the center of the world your whole life has received from US influence and economy power? Strange thing to be asking honestly. America is home to over $750 billionaires who would be paying zero income tax. Personally I think that should be what changes.
  - ahmeneeroe-v2 2y ago
    >Stop asking about the costs This is not a serious position. Cost is always a factor.

American soft power enables a multitude of benefits to US taxpayers, but as a higher-order effect. Leaders who only apply first-order thinking will disrupt complex systems without understanding them.

ahmeneeroe-v2 2y ago

At what cost to those US taxpayers? Leaders who only look at benefits without understanding costs will bankrupt the American people.

darth_avocado 2y ago
Why are you not questioning the defense budget then? Aid like this is mutually beneficial. Countries get free medicine, US gets favorable trade deals, the money spent stays with US companies and flows down to US taxpayers in terms of wages and taxes the companies making the drugs pay back. But if you think that’s not beneficial, then why do we need trillions every year for defense?
- throw678937 2y ago
  This is not a direct response, but as an aside, defense spending really has fallen in recent decades. It's not the War on Terror days anymore: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?locations=US https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?locat...
8note 2y ago
a naive guess would be about negative 33 trillion dollars cost to US taxpayers, the current debt. but whats the costs overall of changing the official US name of "gulf of mexico" to "golf of mexico" or the cost to everyone of all this disruption? whats the costs ive had to pay from Turmp bungling the covid response? how many bungled responses am i going to have to pay for because trump doesnt want the US to have a leading role in the WHO? the cost of all these deportions? both immediate and future? why am i paying for this RTO mandate that Musk wants to run? whats the cost of all these tariffs trump's about to put in? wheres my opt out?
- ahmeneeroe-v2 2y ago
  The election. Most of those things lost the election so here we are.
bamboozled 2y ago
Stop asking about the costs and think of the benefits, you as an American, being the center of the world your whole life has received from US influence and economy power? Strange thing to be asking honestly. America is home to over $750 billionaires who would be paying zero income tax. Personally I think that should be what changes.
- ahmeneeroe-v2 2y ago
  >Stop asking about the costs This is not a serious position. Cost is always a factor.