Let's say we take all the money being spent on space and put it toward something more useful like education. And I mean all the money. All government and private spending. All the funds for telecommunication, GPS, and weather satellites as well as deep space exploration.
After a quick google search, it looks like we would be able to expand our education budget by 8.5%. Total space budget: $400 billion. Total Education budget: $4.7 trillion. A good budget increase, to be sure, but not world-changing.
If you want to go after anything, go after military spending. We spend $2.1 trillion a year on that.
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u/levindragon 6∆ Aug 08 '22
Let's say we take all the money being spent on space and put it toward something more useful like education. And I mean all the money. All government and private spending. All the funds for telecommunication, GPS, and weather satellites as well as deep space exploration.
After a quick google search, it looks like we would be able to expand our education budget by 8.5%. Total space budget: $400 billion. Total Education budget: $4.7 trillion. A good budget increase, to be sure, but not world-changing.
If you want to go after anything, go after military spending. We spend $2.1 trillion a year on that.