Finance jumped from 4% of GDP (1960s) to 8% (2007), costing $2 trillion annually—more than healthcare, construction, food combined. It's computer money-shuffling.
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Your vote has 0.00001% chance of mattering. Car accident driving to polls has 0.002% chance. You're 200X more likely to get injured than change outcome.
Farmed catfish causes 20,000 times more suffering than milk per kg. The math is third grade, but your dinner choices remain catastrophic.
70% of voters don't know how much government spends on anything. Your lizard brain beats your rational cortex 206 times per day.
$1.8 trillion global military spending vs $100 million brain research. Chart required 17,000 pixels high to show military spending properly.
$1.5 trillion spent on drug war enforcement with zero change in addiction rates. Like paying someone $10 billion yearly to not do their job.
Keynesians believe Federal Reserve designs economic order from chaos like creationists believe in intelligent design. Both can't grasp complex adaptive systems. Evolution and markets don't need planners.
World GDP is $127.8 trillion divided by 7.3 billion people equals $17,500 each. Happiness maxes out at $75k income. Above that you're just buying stuff, not joy. Economics with spreadsheets.
Political platform asks "what if you tried helping people instead of signaling tribal affiliation?" Uses third-grade math. Revolutionary, apparently.
Americans underestimate wealth inequality so badly the perception gap exceeds the actual wealth gap—like thinking your neighbor has 2 cars when they own a dealership.