[OC] Defence budgets around the worldSubmitted by giteam t3_zx6596 in dataisbeautiful
BigBayesian t1_j23im5i wrote
Reply to comment by JuliusErrrrrring in [OC] Defence budgets around the world by giteam
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?”
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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