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Do you have any evidence of this? Also “and margins” seems like a stupid thing to add. Margins are high during peacetime and wartime alike. And it’s not parall

Do you have any evidence of this? Also “and margins” seems like a stupid thing to add. Margins are high during peacetime and wartime alike. And it’s not parallel to bribes / kickbacks which are corrupt and illegal. Margins are the natural outcome of capitalism + monopoly. Having S Korean competition means those margins would likely drop over time.

ReptileMan 4mo ago
>Do you have any evidence of this? I have been advisor to some people signing the deals. I would say that depending on the project in my slice of the industry at least 25-30% were outright redistributed to various stakeholders.
- Loic 4mo ago
  Confirmed. The second industry with such redistribution is oil and gas, 5-15%. My figures are from ~2005.
  - gaiagraphia 4mo ago
    Fun stories of hearing about key equipment gets caught up in Libyan customs. Weeks and weeks of meeting various officials, learning about each others families, drinking tea, etc, before 'the cost of compliance' is finally raised.
throwaway27448 4mo ago
> Margins are high during peacetime and wartime alike Countries with high margins during wartime don't typically win wars against peer powers. Cf nazi germany vs the soviet union. This is typically a luxury you see when rich countries fight poor ones (in absolute terms, including capital in the form of production capacity and tech IP/know-how)
overfeed 4mo ago
> Margins are high during peacetime and wartime alike. Perhaps when fighting foreign jaunts against a minnow. Preserving high margins in an grinding, existential war against a peer would be considered anything from unpatriotic, to outright illegal war profiteering, and carries a real risk of the shareholders losing control and/or ownership of the organization through various war-time instruments.

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Do you have any evidence of this? Also “and margins” seems like a stupid thing to add. Margins are high during peacetime and wartime alike. And it’s not parall

by thephyber 4mo ago

ReptileMan 4mo ago
>Do you have any evidence of this? I have been advisor to some people signing the deals. I would say that depending on the project in my slice of the industry at least 25-30% were outright redistributed to various stakeholders.
- Loic 4mo ago
  Confirmed. The second industry with such redistribution is oil and gas, 5-15%. My figures are from ~2005.
  - gaiagraphia 4mo ago
    Fun stories of hearing about key equipment gets caught up in Libyan customs. Weeks and weeks of meeting various officials, learning about each others families, drinking tea, etc, before 'the cost of compliance' is finally raised.
throwaway27448 4mo ago
> Margins are high during peacetime and wartime alike Countries with high margins during wartime don't typically win wars against peer powers. Cf nazi germany vs the soviet union. This is typically a luxury you see when rich countries fight poor ones (in absolute terms, including capital in the form of production capacity and tech IP/know-how)
overfeed 4mo ago
> Margins are high during peacetime and wartime alike. Perhaps when fighting foreign jaunts against a minnow. Preserving high margins in an grinding, existential war against a peer would be considered anything from unpatriotic, to outright illegal war profiteering, and carries a real risk of the shareholders losing control and/or ownership of the organization through various war-time instruments.