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How much more money do engineers or engineering firms make by designing dams that fail and boats that sink?
by schemester 3y ago
How much more money do engineers or engineering firms make by designing dams that fail and boats that sink?
- riffraff 3y agoI'm not sure how we can quantify it but we've had the car emissions scandal, the Boeing scandal, perhaps a self driving one.. It seems engineers screw up on purpose often enough that the monetary incentives must be there.
- ISL 3y agoCan be quite a bit -- the low bidder gets the job and gets paid. The higher bidder doesn't get paid and gets to continue looking for work.
- s1artibartfast 3y agoSoftware engineers can make quite a bit at projects and companies that ultimately fail. Should we hold developers at uber criminally liable if the company fails? management? where does it stop?
- UncleEntity 3y ago> Should we hold developers at uber criminally liable if the company fails? Apparently not even if they design a system for thwarting regulators from doing their job.
- vjk800 3y agoJust look at the anti-consumer tactics used in the software industry and you have your answer.