It’s risk vs. efficiency. Duplicating work lowers risk at the cost of efficiency. Without redundancy, the market is unstable. Look at the pipeline shortages of

It’s risk vs. efficiency. Duplicating work lowers risk at the cost of efficiency. Without redundancy, the market is unstable. Look at the pipeline shortages of the past year. A chip shortage screws up many industries because all eggs are in one basket. Farmers have government incentives to overproduce for to prevent food instability. A company always has competition due to promotions, by the way. Competing at a team level makes sense for R&D, since products can end up different. But I’m not sure how it makes sense for a big, resource heavy project.