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[–] 73 points 7 months ago (10 children)

How much does it cost to not send them there in the first place?

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago

    Ah! Excellent question.

    It is estimated that there are 92 million people living in Iran. The price of a human, ignoring the human's net worth, has a lower bound of 1 million USD (based off the heart alone).

    With some simple math, it can be deduced that Iran currently holds at least 92 trillion dollars of human wealth.

    Since Iran is considered to be an enemy of the US, that 92 trillion is subtracted off of the US GDP (~30.5 trillion USD), which puts the US in the red.

    Therefore, Trump must reduce Iran's stockpiles of human wealth to get the US GDP to at least break even.

    I am sure you understand, now that I put this in this very logical way.

    /s if there's any confusion

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  • [+] -16 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    That's a different question. We put them there, we are responsible for bringing them back.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    Are you aware how many people could be saved with 2 billions worth of social programs and healthcare?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (3 children)

    None, because even if we weren't in this war, they wouldn't spend it on that stuff anyway.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    Doesn't change the fact that 2 billion could save a lot of people if the money was allocated for that instead of war.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I get it. After Afghanistan, I heard we spent $7 trillion, and got literally no outcome. Everything was essentially the same as when we started, 20 years before. Think of what we could have done with $7 trillion over 20 years...

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Yes, it's so sad how USA has lost obvious opportunities to improve the lives of their population, actually not much different from Russia. The money was there, they were just spend on making the rich richer and to build an expensive military.

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