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> Because they bought it.

Fair enough, but I was referencing people taking a Boeing exec’s claim that somehow regulations cause military soap dispensers to cost that much at face value.

> I assume you talk about the government here?

No. Read the whole sentence. I’m referencing Boeing and the tens of billions Boeing has lost on fixed price contracts.



> somehow regulations cause military soap dispensers to cost that much at face value

MILSPEC is a thing - but unless the soap dispenser involves electronics, I don't think that applies here.

(If someone had bought an IoT enabled soap dispenser for a military plane, that would have been their own stupidity.)




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