I think I’ve heard that the USA federal gov is bigger than in the past, as in controlling more of an American’s life than in its history. Is it like government revenue divided by gdp? What about minting?

  • @xmunk
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    2128 days ago

    Who is bigger: Meatloaf, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, or Taylor Swift.

    There are a variety of ways to measure the size of things and you’d likely want to use one of the metrics that corresponds to your interest - do you care about the overall budget? Maybe about the number of incarcerated people per thousand?

    It really depends what you want to measure.