Ben Gilbert: belief

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…Yes, I totally agree with everything you're saying. I also think there's another layer to this, which is really a huge theme of this journey with the research and doing this episode for me with Lockheed. That is the phenomenon of competition and its impact on human behavior, probably for both the Soviet Union and the US, although I'm less equipped to talk about the Soviet Union. The fact of that competition led to tremendous advances for society. All the things we just talked about. Silicon Valley itself, for God's sakes, wouldn't have existed without this. There's a rational argument for having an adversary. Technology and society was pushed forward in America by the Cold War, by Lockheed as part of that. Yeah. We've already done a bunch of playbook stuff. Before we get into that formally codified analysis section, let's just talk about, real quick, the segments of Lockheed Martin today so people understand, what do they actually do today? Because we've talked about a lot of this stuff. There's aeronautics, which in theory contains skunk works. That's F-35s, F-22s, the old F-16s, the C-130 J Hercules Airlifter. The F-35, I believe, is the largest program generating 20% of all net sales across all segments. Like you said, it is enormous.…

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