It was all about Wall Street all along. Apparently, this whole theater of the absurd

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14. I spent my more "formative" years as an adult out in Silicon

Valley, often doing Temp Work.

Often in a six month period, I would be at two or three different companies that would all be about the same new product. The products would be similar in form and function, but created by different designers and run on different software or hardware. And whichever product had a Sugar Daddy that could get a deal going between the Department of Defense and that company was the company whose product went on to become successful.

Yes, often the products were rather identical. But that military connection was what it took to get the company into the Wall Street arena.

Perhaps the one company that succeeded without Department of Defense entanglements was Apple, which substituted the educational and graphic design arenas for the military connections.

Atari also escaped the military connections I think. But I never worked there so cannot say for sure.