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If infrastructure isn't sustainable you're destroying value and making your citizens poorer.
by missedthecue 3y ago
If infrastructure isn't sustainable you're destroying value and making your citizens poorer.
- blackhawkC17 3y ago"Not profitable" doesn't mean "unsustainable". To rephrase, some things are not directly profitable but tend to have outsized profitable effects. E.g., the education budget doesn't directly generate profits, but educated people go on to get good jobs and pay a lot of taxes, refunding the cost of their education by many multiples. The same goes for roads, highways, and rail. Not directly profitable, but they enable a lot of free movement that boosts the economy and, in turn, taxes.