(April 24, 2022 at 10:55 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:(April 24, 2022 at 7:23 am)Jehanne Wrote: $8,000 for a gun?? $3 per bullet? (Yes, reread the OP.) Unbelievable!!
This is a totally new gun, using proprietary ammunition of a wholly new caliber. It’s only draw is the military promise to eventually purchase it in large numbers.
right now it is certainly new and tara, and cool in some people’s eyes. later it will be common place.
The urge to get a new toy first before everyone else is not compatible with sound financial management.
In the 90s there was this economist (Summers, I believe) who calculated, in US dollars, the value of individual human beings around the World. (A person from Africa was, in his calculus, worth a few hundred bucks.) Not welcome in Clinton's administration, he was welcome to serve in Bush's cabinet. Question is at $300/bullet has war become a negative return value?
