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Re:US Gross Domestic Product, Second Quarter 2022 (Advance E... by rabuse on Thursday July 28, 2022 @12:31PM (#32266620)
Subsidized by America's spending on R&D for the rest of the planet, just like the military.
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Re:US Gross Domestic Product, Second Quarter 2022 (Advance E... by ceejayoz on Thursday July 28, 2022 @01:04PM (#32267132)
That's the industry PR line, at least.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/02/11/big-p...

> The biggest spender, Johnson & Johnson, shelled out $17.5 billion on sales and marketing in 2013, compared with $8.2 billion for R&D. In the top 10, only Roche spent more on R&D than on sales and marketing.

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Re:US Gross Domestic Product, Second Quarter 2022 (Advance E... by noirbot on Thursday July 28, 2022 @03:37PM (#32269172)
That doesn't seem to contravene what was being said? The assertion was that the US (via higher prices) is what pays for the R&D. Not they they exclusively spend all the US profits on R&D. If the companies suddenly made 20 billion less, I'd expect the proportionate expense on Sales vs. R&D to stay roughly the same?
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