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US tax dollars blowing up US tax dollars. Lockheed Martin and Boeing stonks go up.
by joe_mamba 8mo ago
US tax dollars blowing up US tax dollars. Lockheed Martin and Boeing stonks go up.
- astrange 8mo agoGenerally speaking defense contractors do not make more money during wars, because we start asking them to make low-margin realistic stuff, whereas in peace time we get bored and start paying them to design imaginary superweapons. But we also usually don't blow up our own planes I suppose.
- joe_mamba 8mo ago>Generally speaking defense contractors do not make more money during wars US economy is not in war mode right now in order to ask its contractors to make cheap stuff.