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[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They're more efficient at getting money from the state and paying it out as bonuses or dividends

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Boy does this ring true. I worked for years for a giant multinational publisher and one of their biggest sources of income was taking government money for educational stuff for schools and turning that money into absolutely no useful products while making sure no opportunity to hire another middle manager was overlooked.