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If it only emerged in the 80s, then it's hardly insurmountable.
by koheripbal 6y ago
If it only emerged in the 80s, then it's hardly insurmountable.
- pas 6y agoNaturally, but it'll still take time (and money). See "This Is Why Your Holiday Travel Is Awful: The long, sordid history of New York’s Penn Station shows how progressives have made it too hard for the government to do big things—and why, believe it or not, Robert Caro is to blame" https://www.reddit.com/r/gwern/comments/ez0l93/this_is_why_your_holiday_travel_is_awful_the_long/ https://www.reddit.com/r/gwern/comments/ez0l93/this_is_why_y... Of course the elephant in the room is money. The public doesn't seem to have enough money to do projects. Why? Because structurally things cost a lot more than they used to do. ( https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/10/book-review-the-prices-are-too-dmn-high/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/10/book-review-the-prices... -- http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/show/rs-236-alex-tabarrok-on-why-are-the-prices-so-dmn-high.html http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/show/rs-236-alex-tabarr... ) One big takeaway point - IMHO - is that there's no scale, no growth in construction. So there's no big market, no new frontier for optimizing it. Sure, there are always a few startups, but that's peanuts. Where are the trillions of dollars allocated to get good at building things in this century/millenium? Umm, nowhere. (Or basically spent on iPhones, housing and healthcare.) So it's no surprise that everything is custom made, challenged in court, takes forever and costs all the funds available and some.