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Wild graphic. US spending on one flying killing machine (the F-35) is comparable to total spending on the Marshall plan to reconstruct Europe after WWII, or the
by cousin_it 6mo ago
Wild graphic. US spending on one flying killing machine (the F-35) is comparable to total spending on the Marshall plan to reconstruct Europe after WWII, or the interstate highway system, or all datacenters combined. Priorities!
- marche101 6mo agoI don't think that's right - the scale is logarithmic. The Marshall Plan is 20 times as expensive
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- 93po 6mo agoAnd this is why I hate log scale graphs. Even in the cases where it does have a useful effect, 90%+ of people are still going to interpret it in a linear way and therefore make it massively misleading.
- brookst 6mo agoIt’s hazardous to blend fixed and variable costs.