I've contracted for someone whose customers thought so. (My job involved making stuff work with without an important part from a defunct vendor.) Their costs r

I've contracted for someone whose customers thought so. (My job involved making stuff work with without an important part from a defunct vendor.) Their costs really did increase all the time. Not needlessly, despite what some people thought: their cost per spare part really did grow quite a lot, as the number needed per year decreased and the fixed overhead slowly increased.