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Tech Industry Seeks Bigger Role in Defense. Not Everyone Is on Board

13 pointsby dcgudemanover 3 years ago

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danielmarkbruceover 3 years ago
Schmidt is somewhat naive about something - it&#x27;s made into a complex situation when companies like Google&#x2F;Amazon etc enter the space. They are otherwise largely making feel good stuff. You can&#x27;t escape the fact that for many people (independent of whether it&#x27;s right or wrong) defense technology is about killing people and they want nothing to do with it. They want nothing to do with it from an employment perspective or a customer perspective. I think we&#x27;d see the same reaction from Ben &amp; Jerry&#x27;s employees and customers as we see from Google&#x2F;Amazon.<p>I don&#x27;t see Anduril employees upset about their company being in defense.<p>You can have the tech industry involved in defense, they just need to be companies whose sole purpose is defense. It&#x27;s simpler - your employees explicitly choose to be in that game and the customers aren&#x27;t conflicted. Cloud computing makes it a little more difficult, but if Amazon&#x2F;Google&#x2F;Microsoft avoid making special purpose defense stuff and it&#x27;s just the core infrastructure being used, I think you&#x27;d see less uproar too.
ThePadawanover 3 years ago
&quot;Tech Industry Seeks Higher Profits. More News At Eleven.&quot;