Convert time savings to present value using 10% discount rate. Your commute is worth $8k today, which helps decide if moving beats Netflix.
Think by Numbers runs cost-benefit analyses for a species that spends $604 on weapons for every $1 on clinical trials. We suspect a math error.
The Declaration of Optimization
These governments have enough weapons to end civilization 122 times over. Current military spending is enough money to buy 850 bullets for every person alive every single year. You only need to kill everyone once for everyone to be dead. (I checked.) The remaining murder capacity is sheer waste.
For every 604 dollars they spend on the capacity for orphan manufacturing, they only spend one on clinical trials that might cure the diseases that will slowly torture and brutally murder you and everyone you have ever loved.
Your chance of being killed by a terrorist? 1 in 30 million. Your chance of dying of a disease? 100%.
This is suboptimal.
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Only 33-45% supported American Revolution. 16% backed the king. Half tried avoiding it. America founded by minority opinion that made everyone 52X richer.
Only 21,000 of 1.162 quadrillion possible drug combinations tested. Would take 3.2 billion years at current pace. Earth is 4.5 billion years old.
Federal Reserve printed $4 trillion in 2020. Top 1% wealth increased by exactly $4 trillion that year. St. Louis Fed confirms. The math matches perfectly. Totally normal economic policy.
Every Econ 101 textbook teaches incentives, costs, and second-order effects. Most government policies ignore all three. Like someone passing driver's ed then driving into a lake on purpose.
Random farmers guessed an ox's weight within 1 pound. Experts were wrong. Crowds beat geniuses when math says they shouldn't.
Harvard study shows 3.5% active participation changes society. Not clicking "like." Actual showing up. Your government publishes the percentage needed.
0 Americans killed by Iran vs 290+ shot down in civilian airliner. US overthrew Iran's democracy in 1953 for oil.
Median drug development cost is $985 million including failed trials (2009-2018). In 1893 doctors just tested drugs and reported results. Now we have a Valley of Death instead.
Half of Congress are millionaires vs 1% of population. When representatives are 50X wealthier than you, they represent millionaires. Shocking discovery.