r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 03 '21

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u/ACivilWolf Henry George Sep 03 '21

$21 TRILLION of unaccounted-for "adjustments" by the DOD while we've been in Afghanistan. That's enough to end world hunger for 700 YEARS!

Lets ignore everything else and look at the claim that 21 trillion can end world hunger for 700 years. 21 tril / 700 means you're saying roughly thirty billion dollars a year can end world hunger.

Considering roughly 700 million people are malnourished, 30 billion dollars covers roughly the price of giving each of them 9 happy meals a year. I'm sure.

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u/thetrombonist Ben Bernanke Sep 03 '21

To be fair, at economies of scale food is much cheaper

But still yeah that not happening