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Our culture is incapable of building anything meaningful without extortion pricing.
by aplomb 10y ago
Our culture is incapable of building anything meaningful without extortion pricing.
- throwaway4891a 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig http://bensommer.com/blog/big-dig-big-corruption/ http://bensommer.com/blog/big-dig-big-corruption/ There's a mix of ineptitude, poor/non-planning and some shady deals. With larger projects, more waste is essentially inevitable because of the number of moving parts and limited communication paths.
- wu-ikkyu 10y ago>extortion: the practice of obtaining something, especially money, through force or threats. See also: taxation.