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JuliusErrrrrring t1_j21vbth wrote

Defense per GDP is a biased statistic invented by pro defense budget people in the U.S. The U.S. has by far the largest GDP in the world so they use this statistic to water down our gigantic budget into a manipulated number. A poor man with a gun is paying just as much as a rich man with the same gun.

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BigBayesian t1_j23im5i wrote

I feel like the “Rich man, poor man” metaphors don’t go that well to argue against this metric, because the next step is “Do you want to be a rich man without a gun surrounded by poor men with guns?”

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JuliusErrrrrring t1_j23w13n wrote

I think it fits perfectly. There are two men equally spending for a gun. To muddy the waters with a statistic like price per gun per income is misleading. Military spending per GDP is equally as misleading and it is misleading on purpose to justify outrageous budgets in the U.S.

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