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617 points jbegley | 1 comments | 04 Feb 25 20:28 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

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jmyeet ◴[04 Feb 25 20:50 UTC] No.42938420[source]▶

If you work for big tech now, you’re working for a defense contractor, no different to Boeing, Lockheed Martin or Northrop Grumman.

Ultimately every sufficiently large company seems to become an arms dealer, a drug dealer or a bank.

We need look no further than Lavender [1] to see where this ends up.

1. lesuorac ◴[04 Feb 25 21:16 UTC] No.42938856[source]▶

> If you work for big tech now, you’re working for a defense contractor, no different to Boeing, Lockheed Martin or Northrop Grumman.

The difference is about 250k/yr. Kinda big.

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