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If they were made much cheaper, they likely would not be standing today.
by enraged_camel 11y ago
If they were made much cheaper, they likely would not be standing today.
- tonyarkles 11y agoPrecisely! Engineering usually isn't about designing the best X, it's about designing the cheapest X that meets all of its requirements. Edit: even if the requirement is for X to be the best in the world (which, as a non-quantifiable requirement, makes me uneasy), the goal would still be to do it as cost effectively as possible.