The Cost of War
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The Cost of War
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Re: The Cost of War
#2This is off by 5-10x if you count all the costs (equipment, increased domestic costs, ongoing security liabilities, ...)
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#3Why is this on Hacker News?
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#4This is off by 5-10x if you count all the costs (equipment, increased domestic costs, ongoing security liabilities, ...)
It also completely discounts the human cost of warfare, if such a thing is even measurable.
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#5This is off by 5-10x if you count all the costs (equipment, increased domestic costs, ongoing security liabilities, ...)
It also completely discounts the human cost of warfare, if such a thing is even measurable.
Definitely. Even if you just focus on the economic cost of the human costs (lost income for anyone who dies in early 20s, disinvestment in Iraq/Afghanistan by local people due to fear they'll be robbed or killed, etc.), that's higher than the direct military cost.
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#6I'd like to see the war on drugs added.
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#7Can we just start listing government costs debts, etc. on a per-capita basis? Aside from the fact that we can then compare differently sized governments, it just gives a better sense of scale. When you multiply by 300M just about all numbers are mindlessly big.