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>Those companies are making GD, Raytheon and Lockheed look like kids playing in a sandbox. Maybe because >Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Facebook are extremely
by mrkramer 5y ago
>Those companies are making GD, Raytheon and Lockheed look like kids playing in a sandbox.
Maybe because >Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Facebook are extremely useful consumer technology companies. I don't know about you but I won't be buying fighter aircraft anytime soon.
- munk-a 5y agoBoeing gets about 28.6 Billion from the US government each year[1] given the US population of around 400 million you're giving them (if we spread the cost evenly) about seventy five dollars every year. Once upon a time this was a large sum of money - now-a-days it's probably less than most folks spend on spotify and definitely less folks spend on coffee in a non-pandemic year. 1. https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2020/01/02/how-much-of-boeings-revenues-comes-from-the-us-government/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2020/01/02/ho...