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[EnsignExpendable]

They discover this article every other week over there, no need to necro a two year old thread over it.

[Shanzival]

Oh man, I love how they keep bringing up the cost in Reichmarks to 'prove' that the Panther wasn't that much more expensive than the Pz IV to produce. They must have gotten a really good bulk deal on all that extra stuff that went into the Panthers. They were what, 50% heavier at least? And with more complicated and thicker armor plates?

[Donward]

Cost savings from relying extensively on slave labor. Starving, poorly housing, withholding medical care, raping and executing your  foreign workforce goes a long way towards balancing the bottom line.

Just don't tell that to today's modern venture capitalists aiming to downsize a business...

[Tied]

EnsignExpendable, on Jul 14 2015 - 16:13, said:

They discover this article every other week over there, no need to necro a two year old thread over it.

 

it rarely gets 12 pages and having the vast majority of forum-goers accept it as fact 

[EnsignExpendable]

You must not read the forums that much, it does that every time. 

[acosnil]

Donward, on Jul 14 2015 - 17:53, said:

Cost savings from relying extensively on slave labor. Starving, poorly housing, withholding medical care, raping and executing your foreign workforce goes a long way towards balancing the bottom line.

Just don't tell that to today's modern venture capitalists aiming to downsize a business...

 

Is there any reliable way to gauge what the real cost of production was during WW2? Everyone engaged in funny money shenanigans to some extent and man hours aren't always a reliable figure.

[Tied]

Maybe the amount of metals it takes? 

[Shanzival]

That can help, especially if there is a resource crunch, but complexity can be a big multiplier to the amount of effort needed.

[Dominatus]

There's also the issue that resources can be relatively more expensive for one nation than for another.

[xthetenth]

Donward, on Jul 14 2015 - 12:53, said:

Cost savings from relying extensively on slave labor. Starving, poorly housing, withholding medical care, raping and executing your foreign workforce goes a long way towards balancing the bottom line.

Just don't tell that to today's modern venture capitalists aiming to downsize a business...

 

You think they don't already know?

 

acosnil, on Jul 20 2015 - 19:39, said:

 

Is there any reliable way to gauge what the real cost of production was during WW2? Everyone engaged in funny money shenanigans to some extent and man hours aren't always a reliable figure.

 

It's really hard because even such things as industrial processes aren't equivalent between countries, let alone resources with different scarcities.