• Shanmugha@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    Take my upvote. I too fail to see how “make something work well, get more money” isn’t the obvious default choice for businesses

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      14 days ago

      Stuff like infrastructure should most of the time not be privatized and remain in state hands.

      As a business you just need to outbid your opponent for the electric grid or whatever. Then you do the bare minimum to say you delivered within budget etc. People are sheep and won’t notice until they are sitting in the dark.

      The company that had a realistic cost in their offer was probably not picked.

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        14 days ago

        Which means whoever does the picking also doesn’t care about anything further away in time than “project declared done, money has been payed”. Time for me to take a break (been lamenting about these things for too long now)