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Palmer Luckey — Science (Non)fiction

The Joe Walker Podcast

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Silicon Valley: The Pace Dividend of Pairing Back Defense Spending

US defense spending is currently about 3.5% of JDP. If the military switched from a cost plus model to a product model, how much lower could you get that? You're talking about a gain certainly in the tens of billions to low hundreds of billions of dollars a year. I could imagine a world where you're saving $200 billion a year in the US.

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