Defense Industry: Keep Paying Us or the Economy Dies

When the author explains the defense industry point that:

"many of the nation’s best young people tend to avoid ‘old’ manufacturing industries - including the aerospace sector "

he reinforces by adding:

defense firms now have to compete with Apple, Google, Facebook and anything Y Combinator funds for bright tech engineers.

Y combinator is now more ubiquitous than I though!

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