Reminder that percentages are different to absolute values. The percentage can be a strong indicator of a nation’s values.
You thought you were really cooking with that.
Reminder that GDP is not a natural force, but a measurement of capital’s performance and was invented to argue for lower taxes on landlords. The accepted GDP values are just what each country reports, and can be easily artificially inflated, especially by governments like the United States that includes not only rent, but also a fake rent that homeowners pay to themselves.
GDP is not a neutral measurement, but is deliberately defined to benefit capital at the expense of labor. Percentage of government budget could be a better comparison between countries than absolute values, but the absolute value is also important to understand.
With that in mind, government spending and private investment can be indicators of a nation’s values: like that America values murdering non-white children more than it values feeding its own children and that Britain and Europe are sick of feeding their children and want to invest more in the child murdering.
Wikipedia editors are petty and incredibly biased. Start reading the talk pages, especially on controversial articles, and your opinion on Wikipedia’s objectivity will rapidly plummet.
Also, it’s a bit like reddit: you find yourself learning so much about new topics, until you start reading about things you have actual expertise on, and you realize the people writing this shit are uninformed idiots, and, when you try to fix the information, the petty nerds who control it revert your changes and ban you.
Hey did you know that, under the US military’s Code of Conduct, captured servicemembers are required to use any and all means at their disposal to escape and return to friendly forces?
This is how soldiers are trained in all militaries, and yet it is still a violation of the Geneva Conventions to murder prisoners of war.
If America hadn’t spent the last century destabilizing everything south of the Rio Grande for the crime of thinking they were sovereign nations there wouldn’t be a “flood” of economic and political refugees from central and South America.
Either one really