Hacker News Reader

> core problem in the United States' institutions - Defense industry dysfunction.

Not Super PACs? "they can raise funds from individuals, corporations, unions, and other groups without any legal limit on donation size." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_action_committee

View on HN

> a core problem in the United States' institutions - Defense industry dysfunction.

You missed a word.

But to answer your specific suggestion for No. 1: No, I don't think Super PACs are near the Top 10 issues facing the United States' institutions. They might be in the Top 100.

There’s a lot of conflicting incentives here, and PACs are definitely part of the problem. Luckey is, in my view, helping with just one of those issues (stagnation of innovation in the defense industry). Unfortunately I don’t see how he avoids employing, you guessed it, PACs to break the mold.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com