‘What was the biggest waste of money in human history?’ – 17 times money was spaffed up the tallest of walls
9.
‘Probably that Dutch guy who spent money buying tulips in 1636.’
-ThinkingThoth_369
10.
‘Most of Dubai’s Artificial islands.’
-indywizard08
11.
‘The Great Wall of Gorgan, built by the ancient Sasanian Empire in modern-day Iran. The purpose was to protect themselves from Nomadic invadors.
‘It was constructed with 100 million man-days of labor, which is equivalent to around 300,000 workers toiling for five years straight.
‘Considering the average labor cost, material expenses, and other related expenditures, the total cost of the project could have reached an astronomical sum of approximately $130 billion in today’s dollars!
Needless to say, it failed its intended purpose as Huns devised techniques to overcome the wall without much hassle.’
-hobabaObama
12.
‘Bailing out billion dollar companies during COVID like Delta Airlines that charges me $50 to bring a bag on an airplane. Instead of, you know, training new doctors or fast tracking those already in med school, or paying off their student loan debt.’
-loyolacub68
13.
‘The Vietnam War at $176 billion. Countless dead for no reason, and nothing positive came of it.’
-Potater72
14.
‘Those guys who bought tickets to the titanic sub.’
-Yeet-Retreat1
15.
‘New Zealand spent about 25 million dollars (NZD) on a flag referendum, before it started the public were against it saying we would never change the flag, the government persisted anyway, two years later the public voted to keep our current flag, so we did massive fucking waste of time and money for a result they should have been expecting from the very beginning.’
-mediocre_mediajoker
16.
‘Quantatitive easing, and the banking bailout.
‘We’ve created a system where businesses can be ‘too big to fail’ and they can expect a bailout when they get into trouble, but when times are good all the profits go to the shareholders. So we’ve privatised profit, and socialised risk.
‘This means we’ve effectively rigged the game for capitalism, making a system where market forces are no longer fully in play, and creating zombie companies that should have folded a long time ago.’
-rennarda
17.
‘Everyone here has better answers but I’ve gotta mention Twitter. What an absolutely idiotic way to buy a company.
‘Acquire because someone told you you can’t, fire 80% of the staff, abolish the branding completely, remove mod support, offer worthless utilities that used to be free as part of a “premium service,” then force push notifications to every single user that are really just your personal tweets, and when people still won’t listen to you masquerade as an anonymous user on your own app/company, artificially inflate your own follower count, and be your own biggest supporter.’
-nick3790
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