[baq]

I'm saying I'd rather have a dude in a digger than a hundred folks who need to be supplied, some of them drunk, some of them thieves, some of them just plain bad at digging and only making a mess of the dig site.

[claudiulodro]

In this metaphor, your dude in a digger could also be drunk or a thief or bad at his job, and that'd be a bigger problem vs. a few people from a 100 person hand crew.

[baq]

This is true, but my priors say it’s much less likely to get a thief or a drunk in a digger than in a group of a hundred folks with shovels.