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by andsoitis 332 days ago
> next source of growth

How large is the US military contract market for the kinds of products and services these companies produce?

For reference, their combined 2024 revenue was around $2 Trillion.
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jcgrillo 332 days ago
Surveillance? They have an exceptionally valuable product if they package it right.
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andsoitis 332 days ago
> Surveillance? They have an exceptionally valuable product if they package it right.

So valuable that it will be next main source of growth (what was claimed) for Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Nvidia, Meta, and Tesla?

The US military budget is less than $1 trillion per annum. these companies had a combined revenue of $2 trillion. For military contracts to be THE new source of growth, the military budget would have to be how much larger?

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9rx 332 days ago
> For military contracts to be THE new source of growth, the military budget would have to be how much larger?

To be fair, it wasn't suggested that the growth would be equivalent to or surpassing of past growth, just growth of some kind. The budget doesn't necessarily have to become any larger, they just need a piece of the pie.

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