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The point is that it cannot be.
by inimino 7y ago
The point is that it cannot be.
- Marazan 7y agoAccording to the article it cost $4600 a day to build. On a 8 hour work day on federal minimum wage that's only 52 workers being able to work on the entire project ignoring all machine and material costs. Too right it couldn't be done today. Or there were a lot of costs accumulated by the project that were not assigned to the project.
- madsbuch 7y agoI hope usd 4600 does not include labor costs of 10000 soldiers (salary, food, accommodation, etc.)
- edraferi 7y agoClassic government accounting problem. People look free to managers, so more stuff gets brought in-house than it should.
- Marazan 7y agoOh balls, just realised I misread the comment about cost per meter as cost per mile so my calc is hilariously wrong! Still the reported cost of the road at the tune excludes machinery and labour costs, it was purely material costs.