It's very easy once you embrace the triune brain. Most of the white collar roles in construction are nothing but "yes men". Personally this is why I'm a huge advocate for nationalized infrastructure workers. I work in the concrete division and mark my estimates up 4-8% for public hard bids. The stone division has gone through lots of license and permitting bullshit to be able to bid MNDOT work. They generally mark up their work 20-30% due to how stifling the requirements are to participate in the bid.
The whole system is basically designed to make local and state government the heel. Having all utility work handled through the state with an organized workforce of full time engineers would make everything not only simpler, but cheaper and result in higher wages for any engineers involved.
No one ever sees that though, and just thinks that total deregulation would mean that the private company they work for would pay them more and not just fire them and give up on engineering.
I remember the M4A study the Mercatus people did that mistakenly proved it would save money. The most remarkable thing to me was the overhead costs to run the program, I think it was only 2% of all expenses.
This is just enraging. How do you see these public works up close and still oppose them? Fuck these people.
Same way you rail against socialism while demanding your social security and Medicare
It's very easy once you embrace the triune brain. Most of the white collar roles in construction are nothing but "yes men". Personally this is why I'm a huge advocate for nationalized infrastructure workers. I work in the concrete division and mark my estimates up 4-8% for public hard bids. The stone division has gone through lots of license and permitting bullshit to be able to bid MNDOT work. They generally mark up their work 20-30% due to how stifling the requirements are to participate in the bid.
The whole system is basically designed to make local and state government the heel. Having all utility work handled through the state with an organized workforce of full time engineers would make everything not only simpler, but cheaper and result in higher wages for any engineers involved.
No one ever sees that though, and just thinks that total deregulation would mean that the private company they work for would pay them more and not just fire them and give up on engineering.
I remember the M4A study the Mercatus people did that mistakenly proved it would save money. The most remarkable thing to me was the overhead costs to run the program, I think it was only 2% of all expenses.