People starving has absolutely zero to do with NASA’s budget. We are more than equipped to end world hunger, there’s just no profit in it. In the US, 30-40% of food is simply wasted. That’d be a good start to look at.
The gist of it is that the government can simply issue bonds to create more money if they need it. They are bounded by material constraints, and public sentiment, not by monetary constraints. Saying that funding one thing means another can’t be funded is a fundamental misunderstanding of how government finance works with fiat currency.
People starving has absolutely zero to do with NASA’s budget. We are more than equipped to end world hunger, there’s just no profit in it. In the US, 30-40% of food is simply wasted. That’d be a good start to look at.
$2,000,000,000 See what you can do with that.
It’s not a matter of that money not being available to be spent on other things. That’s simply not how government finance works.
What do you mean… lol before NASA we used that money for other things like infrastructure.
Someone posted a good video explaining exactly this topic earlier today:
https://lemmy.ml/post/5332899
The gist of it is that the government can simply issue bonds to create more money if they need it. They are bounded by material constraints, and public sentiment, not by monetary constraints. Saying that funding one thing means another can’t be funded is a fundamental misunderstanding of how government finance works with fiat currency.