4 ms·
> How is it that we've become so bad at building? MBAs. Same ones infecting the company that you most likely work for. Something smaller like stamping out PV
by lamontcg 3y ago
> How is it that we've become so bad at building?
MBAs. Same ones infecting the company that you most likely work for.
Something smaller like stamping out PV panels or windmills for farms of them is much more manageable. Anything big and complex invites too much graft.
And while you can complain about expensive regulations, that's just another graft called regulatory capture. And they let you blame it on the hippies, while they rake in the dollars.
- smt88 3y agoAs a software developer, I can tell you that MBAs aren't necessary for massive cost overruns. People are bad as estimating the cost of technical work when unknown-unknowns are involved, and the problem becomes worse when there's a massive incentive to underestimate to win the contract when you know the government will pay for all of your overruns.
- pie_flavor 3y agoThose describe the discrepancy between an incorrectly low bid and a reasonable-but-higher cost. They do not describe how the cost gets astronomically high.