They are asked to build a tall and sturdy tower using the smallest possible number of snap-together Lego bricks.

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The immediate cause of the disaster was a breakdown in the snap-together final assembly process in Toulouse that has served the company well for over 30 years.

ECONOMIST: Airbus and EADS

If distributed manufacturing and snap-together assembly were really such bad ideas, its American rival Boeing would not have recently adopted the same approach, flying in sub-assemblies to its Seattle base from as far away as Japan and Italy.

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Secondly, this market income number does not include the income redistribution that is already done in the US. Sure, this is much less than in mahy other countries but adding Medicaid, Section 8, SNAP, the EITC, together we get to what, 5-7% of GDP or so?

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