The Rob Burgess Show on Nostr: This war in Iran is projected to cost $1 billion a day. The opportunity cost is ...
This war in Iran is projected to cost $1 billion a day. The opportunity cost is staggering. Imagine the problems we could solve with $1 billion a day. Even lighting the money on fire would be less destructive since no one would be hurt or killed by that. This is worse.
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