You can build damn near anything to last a thousand years. Nobody wants to pay for it though, and I mean can you blame them? If you increase the price by an order of magnitude people are going to get cranky.
It’s more expensive rebuilding it a bunch of times than doing it right the first time. We have a shit load of money. And it would be a proper use of borrowed money for a change, investing in something that pays for itself in the long run. As opposed to borrowing to buy tanker ships full of lube to stroke off investors like we do now.
Yeah but you forgot that we live in a world of very short term thinking. The must noticable expressions i are how politicians plan election-to-election and business think quarter-to-quarter and year-over-year. We all do it though. It feeds into credit nightmares for everyone. If people are asked “do you want to/ can you pay $1,000 right now or $120 monthly for 10 months” most will (usually by necessity) take the second option. Now blow that up into the millions for infrastructure. Thus a road that’ll last 500 years become a replac- it-every-50-years problem.
You can build damn near anything to last a thousand years. Nobody wants to pay for it though, and I mean can you blame them? If you increase the price by an order of magnitude people are going to get cranky.
It’s more expensive rebuilding it a bunch of times than doing it right the first time. We have a shit load of money. And it would be a proper use of borrowed money for a change, investing in something that pays for itself in the long run. As opposed to borrowing to buy tanker ships full of lube to stroke off investors like we do now.
Yeah but you forgot that we live in a world of very short term thinking. The must noticable expressions i are how politicians plan election-to-election and business think quarter-to-quarter and year-over-year. We all do it though. It feeds into credit nightmares for everyone. If people are asked “do you want to/ can you pay $1,000 right now or $120 monthly for 10 months” most will (usually by necessity) take the second option. Now blow that up into the millions for infrastructure. Thus a road that’ll last 500 years become a replac- it-every-50-years problem.