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.
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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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.
$1.8 trillion global military spending vs $100 million brain research. Chart required 17,000 pixels high to show military spending properly.
Americans spend 70 minutes daily consuming news about problems in places they'll never visit.
Saving one cat kills 600 chickens over 15 years. Utilitarianism proves petting your cat is morally worse than euthanizing it.
Only 1 of 180 countries has press freedom like 1st Amendment. North Korea, Eritrea, Turkmenistan are information black holes.
Reuters polled 60 economists about steel tariffs. 0% supported them. Zero as in number before one. Like asking 60 doctors if you should eat broken glass and getting zero yes votes.
2.5 million people created a democracy. You have 335 million who can't agree on anything.
15,000 nuclear weapons can kill everyone 2.6 times. After the first death, you're just showing off with expensive redundancy.
Government gave doctors earning $200k up to $44k for iPads costing $500. Took taxes from staff making $25/hour who then lost jobs to the technology.