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[deleted] t1_jads6ln wrote

This feels dangerously like the military industrial complex is feeding into the tech industry. It sounds like there's a lot of people, with interests in the sector, asking tax payers to support them indefinitely "cause China might catch up!".

Then if China follow in kind it's just a zero-sum race to the bottom.

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cwesttheperson t1_jae2y02 wrote

It for sure is to an extent. But it’s not a bad thing either. The amount of control China has with chips if they try to just take over Taiwan is very threatening. Crippled with Chinas significantly decreasing population projects it puts us in a very bad spot in the coming decades should we not be reliant. I think it’s not just MIC but an all hands on deck scenario.

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[deleted] t1_jae97tf wrote

It can lead to a lose-lose situation where the choice is either massive subsidy for a resource which never returns the investment, or just giving up the industry to a foreign power.

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allenout t1_jae9yza wrote

It's worth mentioning, this industry is incredibly profitable

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LandoChronus t1_jae9odj wrote

There's a cool documentary about military computer chips, from 1998, called Small Soldiers.

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