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I've been to a number of big construction sites for business purposes. When I hear, "this is a $40 million dollar project" and when I see all these workmen, eq
by narrator 2y ago
I've been to a number of big construction sites for business purposes. When I hear, "this is a $40 million dollar project" and when I see all these workmen, equipment and materials moving around, I think, so this is what $40 million dollars in motion looks like.
- tnmom 2y agoMuch of that money goes to permitting, admin, and insurance. What you’re seeing is probably the $10-20 million that wasn’t successfully siphoned off by bureaucrats.
- bmiller2 2y agoI don't know why you're being downvoted. There is a reason why development volume across states is asymmetric.
- stevofolife 2y agoDownvotes help people skip the noise and focus on the signal. Ain’t nothing wrong with that.
- tnmom 2y agoWho knows - it’s just fake internet points. Hard to get worked up about.
- zarathustreal 2y agoKinda easy to guess, there’s really only one possibility and answer: people felt a certain way after reading and voted accordingly. The idea that anyone votes based on the content of what’s been said is false. For example, you’re not gonna upvote a true statement of a statistical fact if you think there’s a terrible reason for it. You’re gonna downvote because you feel bad about what you perceive as the reason regardless
- BryantD 2y agoBecause “successfully siphoned off by bureaucrats” has an implicit value judgement in it. If someone a) thinks the cost of regulation provides value and b) believes that downvoting is a reasonable response to opinions they disagree with, they’re likely to downvote in this case. Personally I only believe one of those things. I also believe the point about additional cost of development could have been made without the value judgement.
- duxup 2y ago> Much of that money goes to permitting, How much?
- moneywoes 2y agois this flow of dollars tracked anywhere