R&D was already a massive thing before trickle down economics came on the scene. In fact I would argue that since stock buy backs and trickle down economics bec

R&D was already a massive thing before trickle down economics came on the scene. In fact I would argue that since stock buy backs and trickle down economics became the operating model R&D went down. Mainly due to the fact that stock buy backs guaranteed stock growth where as R&D could be hit or miss.