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I wonder how bad this actually is. Things like new ships tend to get bigger and bigger as time passes. Even if Bezos pushed the problem forward in time, it see

• krapp 5y ago
  > Things like new ships tend to get bigger and bigger as time passes. That isn't a law of nature. The shipyards could have chosen not to build a ship too tall to pass under the bridge. We have regulations on the size of semi trucks rather than expect every highway overpass to be dismantled to make way for arbitrarily large cargo, there is no reason this shipyard or the Dutch government should simply put up their hands, rather than make them build a shorter craft, or dismantle the mast, or something.