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oc1 ◴[] No.44522688[source]
<< According to official records, the design for the bridge shifted multiple times over the past seven years, largely due to conflicts between the Public Works Department (PWD) and the Railways. The two agencies couldn’t agree on how to share land, and in trying to work around both railway property and the new Metro line, they ended up producing a final layout with an abrupt 90-degree angle.

I love that mindset. Europeans would have simply refused and 100 years later it would have probably been build after all legal has been cleared. Indians instead never say no. That's how you build software, so why not bridges.

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anal_reactor ◴[] No.44523451[source]
The demand for yes-men stays huge. A manager comes, he wants yes-men. Things fail. Someone gets blamed and removed, maybe the manager himself. The circus continues. I wonder why capitalism doesn't remove this obvious inefficiency, but rather seems to promote it.
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1. AnimalMuppet ◴[] No.44523659[source]
Government bureaucracies are rather far from "capitalism".
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2. anal_reactor ◴[] No.44525278[source]
Yes but this problem exists in capitalism too. Name one big company that doesn't suffer from this issue.
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3. AnimalMuppet ◴[] No.44525463[source]
Fair, capitalism does in fact suffer from this. But so does every bureaucracy. For that matter, so did monarchy. So it seems to me to be a bit to single out capitalism.