This just reminded me of a recent thread on reddit where the article was claiming there had been cost overruns etc. in an LA project to house homeless people. The figure in the headline was something like "LA spends 700k per person to house homeless people" or something along those lines.
I think the huge figure caught people on their back foot and it didn't occur to me until later that they could've easily quoted the lifetime cost to house a prisoner, or some other cost frequently associated with homeless people for the sake of comparison but they didn't :citations-needed:
That's a thing, right? Commentary on things that will help people get talked about in terms of bulk expenses but something like prison or whatever gets broken down into yearly chunks.
This just reminded me of a recent thread on reddit where the article was claiming there had been cost overruns etc. in an LA project to house homeless people. The figure in the headline was something like "LA spends 700k per person to house homeless people" or something along those lines.
I think the huge figure caught people on their back foot and it didn't occur to me until later that they could've easily quoted the lifetime cost to house a prisoner, or some other cost frequently associated with homeless people for the sake of comparison but they didn't :citations-needed:
That's a thing, right? Commentary on things that will help people get talked about in terms of bulk expenses but something like prison or whatever gets broken down into yearly chunks.
Military budget: $800B/yr
M4A: $2.5T/10yrs
Which one is 3x more expensive than the other?
3 * 0.8 = 2.4 and I never learned to read, so...