Comments by "buddermonger2000" (@buddermonger2000) on "The Weakness of the US Military (That the Ukraine War Has Revealed) - VisualPolitik EN" video.

@qjtvaddict Yeah the link between education and innovation isn't exactly linear tbh. The education levels have little to do with that as the issue with innovation comes from the bureaucracy of the company and government limiting it as well as natural barriers to starting a new manufacturing business which means that the system favors entrenched players. New up and comers have to face the behemoths without any of the capabilities to even begin to compete. And of course the complexity and size of the systems themselves lend themselves to difficulty with starting. When your Missile costs a several million it's often because it costs a few million to produce. And of course you're not making just one. Not to mention how you'll go under if you don't land a contract.
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Not necessarily. Bringing 100 year old regulation isn't a real solution. And it's not like they're not competing either. The anti-trust laws were also created to prevent monopolies which clearly aren't the case given that there still is a decent amount of competition in the field. Not to mention, the biggest issue regarding the industry is that for proper industrial companies (especially military industry) there are a LOT of natural barriers to entry which means small companies don't really come up a lot. In fact that's what's happened with the airline sector as well. The entire field is very capital intensive with very long waits for a proper return on investment and able to make ANY profit. Thus, the system favors entrenched players. And it applies on a global level as well. Especially with larger systems as unlike with small arms who really can be invented by a few dudes in a garage, all of those systems are incredibly complex and expensive to produce. With another final problem being, like he said, bureaucratic hurdles which makes it more expensive to compete.
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