Tech Industry Seeks Bigger Role in Defense. Not Everyone Is on Board

Schmidt is somewhat naive about something - it's made into a complex situation when companies like Google/Amazon etc enter the space. They are otherwise largely making feel good stuff. You can't escape the fact that for many people (independent of whether it's right or wrong) defense technology is about killing people and they want nothing to do with it. They want nothing to do with it from an employment perspective or a customer perspective. I think we'd see the same reaction from Ben & Jerry's employees and customers as we see from Google/Amazon.

I don't see Anduril employees upset about their company being in defense.

You can have the tech industry involved in defense, they just need to be companies whose sole purpose is defense. It's simpler - your employees explicitly choose to be in that game and the customers aren't conflicted. Cloud computing makes it a little more difficult, but if Amazon/Google/Microsoft avoid making special purpose defense stuff and it's just the core infrastructure being used, I think you'd see less uproar too.

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