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11 Oct 2024 05:21:41 EDT (-0400)
  Re: stop the ride -  
From: nemesis
Date: 23 Nov 2007 21:30:00
Message: <web.47478c3d37f50ac8aa9353f20@news.povray.org>
"alphaQuad" <alp### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
> The amount got us wondering: What would $611 billion buy?

seemingly, strategic oil reserves and "feardom".

> According to World Bank estimates, $54 billion a year would eliminate starvation
> and malnutrition globally by 2015, while $30 billion would provide a year of
> primary education for every child on earth.

Where's the profit in that?  Sure, there are lots of indirect profitable goods,
like less infectious diseases spreading around, economic uprisings thanks to
educated worker force etc.  But none of that compares to direct money making in
the war industry:  arms deals, conquests, pilleage etc.

BTW, is that image you just posted a render?! o_O


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