Economics

1901:
• federal budget $0.35B
• national debt ~$1B
• largest US co market cap: $1.4B

Today:
• federal budget $6.75T
• national debt $36T
• largest US co market cap: $3.7T

(not adjusted for inflation, the point is the ratios)

Founder, The Roots of Progress (rootsofprogress.org). I write about the history of technology and the philosophy of progress. Former tech founder.

This is the inherent problem with Government, it continuously grows larger at the expense of our freedoms and our money. I doubt any of the founders had anything like the modern federal government in mind when they designed this system.