Palmer Luckey
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1,661 appearances
11 recordings
6 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 9 Apr
Palmer Luckey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Why did you ever even think about doing that?
Of course that was never going to work.
They have no proof of performance.
This is a problem that is self-reinforcing.
The United States used to be very good taking small companies that were building powerful things
and turning them into large companies that could do those good things at scale.
But since the end of the Cold War, we've lost that muscle.
There's been massive consolidation in the defense industry.
80% of the money goes to just five companies.
30% of major weapons systems contracts have literally one bidder, meaning no competition even on the private side.
How can you have good outcomes in a world like that?
Offensive and defensive is definitely the right scale.
Distributed or not distributed, I'm not sure.
That I actually think matters less by weapon system and more by the power dynamic of the nation.
There's a question here.
Are the people aligned with the government or are they opposed to the government?
And to what degree?
If you have them where they're neutral parties that accept each other's existence, that's one thing.
Let's say you have a country like Ukraine where implausibly to the Russians, they had formed a strong national identity and there were people who were willing to die in large numbers for their country.
That's a case where there's people who are very much aligned with the broader goals of their nation.
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