The US has spent $1.5 trillion on war since Sept 11 attacks
The usual thought experiment for framing the magnitudinal difference between millionaires and billionaires, extended to trillions:<p>One million seconds ago was Thursday, August 30 (11 days).<p>One billion seconds ago was Saturday, January 3, 1987 (31 years).<p>One trillion seconds ago was back during the Pleistocene geological epoch and the Paleolithic era of prehistory (31,689 years).<p>The quantity of American resources that have been wasted on war is shameful. For my own mental health I try not to dwell too long upon all the infrastructure, research, and social programs that money could have been better spent on.