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> Wages are high Maybe, but I think it's more that the managers/owners are greedy and need big profit margins, especially to pay back their political connectio
by candiddevmike 5y ago
> Wages are high
Maybe, but I think it's more that the managers/owners are greedy and need big profit margins, especially to pay back their political connections who gave them the contract to begin with.
Corruption exists in some form at every step of a publicly funded project. People are too apathetic to care, and the process for getting a road repaved or whatever has been made almost entirely opaque to the electorate. Especially at the county and state levels, where serious cash gets gifted or grifted all the time.
- mastax 5y agoI'm very confident that the amount of greed and corruption in New York in 1905 was greater than or equal to the modern amount. See: Tammany Hall.
- bumby 5y ago>the process for getting a road repaved or whatever has been made almost entirely opaque to the electorate. Most government contracts use an open bid process which is much less opaque than what happens in private contracts. What transparency are you specifically looking for?