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Yeah but this was before war with China and Russia loomed large in the near future (even Trump's foreign policy can't change this.) The security paradigm has sh
by zerosizedweasle 1y ago
Yeah but this was before war with China and Russia loomed large in the near future (even Trump's foreign policy can't change this.) The security paradigm has shifted, this is not the 1990s and it is a matter of life and death. The penalties for being seen as facilitating the large numbers of American deaths in a war will be vicious. Silicon Valley should act accordingly or get run over. War is coming, and soon.
- bigyabai 1y ago> Silicon Valley should act accordingly or get run over. It's funny, looking at America's current defense contractor landscape, we're seeing the diametric opposite. Silicon Valley is annihilating the high-margin incumbent suppliers that can't mass-produce attritable weapons like a near-peer power might. Meanwhile, FAANG doesn't have to lift a finger since they profit off domestic security contracts constantly. The government can yell at them to get off their asses, but unless it makes them money they aren't going to care. This is the lesson you should be taking away from Apple's mistake in China. So why should they adapt? Who's going to run them over, Boeing in a $550,000,000 monster truck? What the hell does Google or Meta get out of working with frugal and smart customers as opposed to the constantly irrational constituent market of American consumers?