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Mostly because government today pays out the nose for contracted labor rates as doing anything in house has been blown apart by free market reaganists over the

• rayiner 2mo ago
  The soviet union, the only non-capitalist country ever to have a technology comparable to ours, was really fucking inefficient. E.g. Soviets had 50% higher CO2 output per ton of steel than the U.S. due to poor energy efficiency.
  • asdff 2mo ago
    There was a time when american steel was inefficiently made too.
    • rayiner 2mo ago
      These figures are comparing steel making in two highly industrialized countries at the same time.
      • asdff 2mo ago
        And different orgs may arrive at different efficiency levels in different time scales. Says nothing about the merits of for profit vs nonprofit business.