With that much money, you could effectively end homelessness in the U.S. for a full year [^1]
[^1]: According to a rough estimate by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, it would cost $20 billion in 2012 dollars to afford every homeless person in the U.S. with one year of housing via vouchers. Independent groups have more recently recalculated this amount as ~$30 billion in 2023 dollars using similar methodologies. This is an estimated annual cost, but advocates argue that the program pays for itself – both in the sense that eliminating homelessness will reduce costs to other social programs & in the sense that many homeless will eventually return to self-sufficiency if given a fair opportunity.
MaxHardwood@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Or 2 international space stations built today with modern tech
ours@lemmy.film 1 year ago
Or not quite half a Twitter (pre-Musk).
Space stations cost less than what some “send a short message” platform does… insanity.
Brickhead92@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t know if today is do-able, best to give it at least till the end of the week.