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100 warps to the best and most genuine answer to what you think caused the 180-degree position flip of SV tech workers on building defense tech.

100 warps to the best and most genuine answer to what you think caused the 180-degree position flip of SV tech workers on building defense tech. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/17/silicon-valley-military-tech-defense-contractors/

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My take on this is that there was always an appetite to work and invest in defense tech but there was a stigma caused by a lack of real conflict causing some people to feel like defense tech was just an excuse to kill people. And wars in Ukraine and Russia have changed this perspective.