Comment by josephcsible

> I use a 5 year old phone

I don't, because I care about security updates, and I don't want to have to choose between a highly degraded battery and giving up waterproofing.

> an 11 year old car

Crash safety has improved by leaps and bounds in recent years. I suspect you're more likely to be killed in a car accident that you wouldn't be in a new car, than to be killed by one of the industries that California bans.

> think the US Navy could function just fine with a lot less budget and warships

If a powerful adversary goes to war with us, then we'd want a lot more, and only increasing then would be too late, because we'd lose the war first.