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You're missing the point. It's like the $10,000 toilet seat covers the US military paid for. I'm not saying they can't afford it. I'm saying it's graft. htt

• nitrogen 6y ago
  Paying $10k for one toilet seat might be graft. We have to ask what the engineering specs were. $10k for an ISS toilet seat might be reasonable. And that $10k might be buying something else they don't want on the budget, which is near enough to graft as makes no difference. But paying $1mil for many toilet seats probably isn't graft if you run 10,000 profitable paid toilets. Until someone can successfully decomission a fleet of oil rigs for way less than $24bil, we don't know if it's a good price or not, but especially if it's a small fraction of the overall lifetime value of the oil produced, it might not be a big deal.