Anybody remember the $10,000 toilet seat lids[0]? It's practically an open secret that a huge chunk of the military budget is just giveaways to the "defense" in

Anybody remember the $10,000 toilet seat lids[0]? It's practically an open secret that a huge chunk of the military budget is just giveaways to the "defense" industry. California's biggest export isn't "tech". It's airplanes. The backbone of the world's 4th largest economy is the military. It's why Microsoft and other tech giants are all slowly transitioning to be government contractors. Elon Musk has never run a profitable company in his life yet is the richest man on Earth. He knows that where the real money is to be made is convincing government officials to fund fantasy projects like underground tunnels and get heavy funding. Tesla is only around because of heavy subsidization and straight up scamming the government (anybody remember the time they pretended to have battery swapping figured out just to take advantage of a California bill but still have not swapped a single battery? It's been 4 years!!) </rant> [0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/the-air-forces-10000-toilet-cover/2018/07/14/c33d325a-85df-11e8-8f6c-46cb43e3f306_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/the-...