The United States has such a large GDP because 1/3 of it is the private healthcare industry. Another massive chunk is the government throwing tax dollars at a shell company of a shell company of a shell company that moves a government contract for construction around to each other 4 times, all subsequently increasing GDP.

  • Beaver [he/him]
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    6 months ago

    Temporary floating docks are literally just a common thing that you use on offshore construction, what the fuck ohnoes

    Seriously, they could have just hired Bubba Joe's Floating Dock Company to install this for like $750k. They install shit like this all. the. time. And in fact, I'll bet they did do just that and just pocketed the rest.

    • tactical_trans_karen [she/her, comrade/them]
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      6 months ago

      This is exactly how the MIC works. Wildly high bids/price fixing for the Pentagon, and the brass own stakes or even outright own the companies that fleece the government.

      • WashedAnus [he/him]
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        6 months ago

        If they don't directly own shares, they've got a sweetheart gig on the company's board lined up for when they 'retire'.