There was a relatively recent report that stated you could DIY a fairly sophisticated “battle” drone for a few hundred dollars that has similar capabilities to the drones being used in Ukraine.
And when people are upset about that system the labs can go and pay the big4 to be their testers and rubber stamp everything they do because the labs are now paying the salary of the people who are there to stop them.
Yep this is the explicit strategy. 1) fund growth off of VC cash at a huge loss; 2) when VC gets tired and no other VC wants to step in, turn to enshitification to provide the VC with liquidity options.
That’s it, that’s the playbook for the past 20 years and probably longer.
Disagree. We shouldn’t distance him from the sources of his wealth, and power, when discussing his businesses.
Doing so only enables him.