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Depends on whether you think the free market should push all engineering talent towards ad tech in SV, or if it is worth maintaining a home grown high tech defe
by mensetmanusman 2y ago
Depends on whether you think the free market should push all engineering talent towards ad tech in SV, or if it is worth maintaining a home grown high tech defense industry.
Recall that the iPhone would cost over a billion dollars if they only made 100 of them.
- thejazzman 2y agoWorth it.
- quantified 2y agoI don't understand your point, can you clarify? There is nothing free about the defense market. A few extremely large and politically wired contractors are cozy with politicians and senior defense procurement officials. So we get F-35s and Independence-class littoral ships. A $1Bb iPhone would at least work.