this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2023
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

And on raytheon, what did they do?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Boeing and Raytheon are massive weapon companies that make drones, missiles, targeting systems etc

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Raytheon stocks more than doubled in value this year.

You could say business is booming

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Both are in the arms business. They make money from war.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yup and if they didn't make money, Putin's tanks would have just ravaged Ukraine instead of being blown up all over the place by Javelins.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They make shitty earbuds and sponsor YouTubers and podcast /s

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You joke but I used to get Raycon, Ray-Ban and Raytheon confused at a time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Imagine if they had the same parent company?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Boeing and Raytheon are military contractors, and the US has characteristically kept itself in or around global conflict in order to continue handing out multi-billion dollar contracts to these companies (and more like them.) Weapons/Platform manufacturing and sales is a large portion of our economic output.