During that killing season we rose earlier than usual to eat lots of meat, and we went up to the soccer field at around nine or ten o’clock. The leaders would grumble about latecomers, and we would go off on the attack. Rule number one was to kill. There was no rule number two. It was an organization without complications.
That is from Jean Hatzfeld’s Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak. I will post more about this remarkable book soon. Here is one good review of the book.
On Taborrok´s Duke Cunningham: Of course one would
only pay a $50K for a $1M revenue contract. That
assumes a profit margin of 5% on the contract!!
One should remember that the REVENUE is quite a
different matter from the profits. And while a
5% profit margin isn´t large, true, it´s not
exactly small either in the competitive world
of US manufacturing.
The real question is, why do companies want to
risk charges of malfeasance for such paltry
profit margins??
AGR
Jared Diamond’s book “Collapse” has an interesting section on the Rwandan genocide. Its suggests overpopulation as the ultimate cause.
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