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by dev_dull
2582 days ago
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> A substantial portion of that cost estimate is the single payer healthcare That’s exactly what I’m talking about. It’s both everything and nothing at the same time. And worst yet if I openly come out against it I come off as some kind of climate denier? The whole thing stinks. It’s the worst kind of politics I’ve ever experienced. It’s as if the bill was just a simple way to divide people up into tribes. Also that 36 trillion came from the first link on google for a search of “how much money is there in the world”[1]. Not that it matters. 1. https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/how-much-money-is-there-... |
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36 trillion is incredibly far off, there’s a lot more wealth than that in the US alone. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_position_of_the_Un...
Wikipedia lists over 300 trillion in global wealth, and people on Quora suggest it’s actually over 1 quadrillion. So 10 trillion isn’t more than 3% of global wealth, and might be less than 1%.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_w...
https://www.quora.com/How-much-money-is-in-the-world
I don’t know much about the GND, but I’m not sure I understand what’s wrong with a price tag on fixing the environment. We’re going to pay it either way. It’ll be cheaper the sooner we start, and extremely expensive if we wait even longer. It won’t take very long to lose 10 trillion dollars when we lose a few coastal cities to rising sea levels.