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There were supposedly 400,000 people behind Apollo 11. I bet you could make some pretty high quality, well crafted stuff today as well, if you had nearly half a million people devoting their lives to building one thing.

   Nvidia: 26,000 people
   TSMC: 73,000
   Intel: 124,000
   AMD: 25,000
   Qualcomm: 50,000
   ASML: 42,000
So, in terms of manpower, the entire global semiconductor industry might be comparable scale.


With about 400,000 people you could make … Target, Home Depot, or United Healthcare.


Maybe a better comparison is SpaceX. In 2022 they had around 12,000 people.


At least space X is producing something. How useful their products are is a subject of debate but in my opinion much higher ranked than meeta who die yet another screen glueing, mind numbing, radicalising add network. What has meta ever done for us?


What would it take to convince Meta to pivot into aqueduct-building?




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