It's a classic case of misplaced accounting priorities, valuing depreciable capital assets a thousand times more highly than the fruits of actual labor-but that's the nature of the government organization. (Charles Stross)

It's a classic case of misplaced accounting priorities, valuing depreciable capital assets a thousand times more highly than the fruits of actual labor-but that's the nature of the government organization.

Charles Stross

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