You do realize that paying people to do nothing in order to take home more profit as a corporation, and charging both the worthless employee time and the extra profit for the corp that allows to the taxpayers is the definition of corruption, right?

> Paying people to learn how to make plane parts

Is the opposite of this:

> being bored not doing anything productive

I'm not sure why you claimed to agree with the latter being how government contracts work.

See my first reply to the topic for more details, but over a decade ago I worked for Group 33 at Lincoln Labs and we considered trying to keep Boeing from overcharging the government too much to be an unwritten part of our mission. But the problem is that the problem is genuinely complicated. It's a situation worth some outrage but outrage without understanding won't accomplish anything useful.

Love the Lincoln Labs folks.

Smart cookies working on tough problems.

Also probably the best radar designers in the whole goddamn world.

I am proud to be even tangentially associated with them.

charging the government to have employees do nothing(to the extent they complain about not having any work to do) is corrupt. It's the type of stuff you see in African countries with government funds being handed out for work that never happens

especially considering the comment was referring to Boeing, a company notorious for their lobbying to get contracts they don't deserve