• t3rmit3@beehaw.org
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    14 days ago

    I think you are confused about the delineation between local and federal governments. It’s not all one giant pool of tax money. None of Santa Clara County’s budget goes to missiles.

    Also, this feels like you are too capitalism-pilled, and rather than just spending the $240 to do this work, and using the remaining $49,999,760 to just fund free college or UBI programs, you’re like, “how about we pay these people to do the most mind-numbingly, soul-crushingly boring work there is, reading old legal documents?”

    You know what would actually happen if you did that? People would seriously read through them for 1 day, and then they’d be like, “clear”, “clear”, “clear”. It’s not like you’re gonna find and fund another group to review the first group’s work, after all.

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      I think you are confused about the delineation between local and federal governments.

      I am not, I simply don’t believe the delineation is relevant since taxpayers fund both the state and federal budgets.

      Also, this feels like you are too capitalism-pilled

      This is me being “reasonable” and working within the constraints of the system. If we aren’t going to have free universal college et al then we can at least trade some of the bloated military budget for a public works program.

      People would seriously read through them for 1 day, and then they’d be like, “clear”, “clear”, “clear” without looking at half of them.

      Sounds to me like a 50% improvement over zero human eyes.

      It’s not like you’re gonna find and fund another group to review the first group’s work, after all.

      Why not? We could hire three teams to do it simultaneously in every state in the country and the cost would still be a tiny fraction of how much was wasted on the F-35 program.

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        Sounds to me like a 50% improvement over zero human eyes.

        It certainly would be. Thankfully, there’s many more than zero human eyes involved in this.