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:One million seconds ago was Thursday, August 30 (11 days).One billion seconds ago was Saturday, January 3, 1987 (31 years).One trillion seconds ago was back during the Pleistocene geological epoch and the Paleolithic era of prehistory (31,689 years).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.