US military spending 1914-2007. Countries spend trillions preparing to kill each other, then kill each other, then prepare again. Beautiful cycle.
Convert time savings to present value using 10% discount rate. Your commute is worth $8k today, which helps decide if moving beats Netflix.
US spends 37% of global military budget with 4.4% of world population. $600 billion on weapons. Switzerland makes chocolate instead.
Government spends $65,337 per voter annually. You could buy a car or pay student loans. Instead government bought fighter jets for you.
Average American household pays $10,489 in personal taxes yearly (14% of income). Federal budget is $4.4 trillion divided by 328 million people equals $13,403 spent per person. Math gets weird.
0 Americans killed by Iran vs 290+ shot down in civilian airliner. US overthrew Iran's democracy in 1953 for oil.
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.