• regul [any]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    If you ever want an answer as to why something is fucked up in the US, 99% of the time it’s because it was contracted out to like 50 different companies instead of just being done in-house.

    See: transit construction, healthcare, student loan administration, I’m sure there are more

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        8 months ago

        Most companies are suffering from the same disease as the government which is contract fetishization and “running lean”, but there certainly exist within this country enough engineers who could simply be federal government employees and design fighter jets.

        (If building better and cheaper fighter jets were something we wanted, but I do not think it is. Would be nice for trains, though.)