No, seriously, why do they? It's not like the construction workers don't get paid their wages if they aren't given such projects, and, unless you are buying the resources from overseas, the only cost for the construction materials for the state is wages/salaries of the workers who are involved in the relevant processes.

Am I being swindled?

  • Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]
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    5 days ago

    and how one of Khrushchev's more notably hair-brained and disastrous reforms

    Have you heard of Liberman, by the way?
    His reforms were truly worthy of the name.