No, because making bridges prohibitively expensive means you are mono-culturing engineering. You are only succeeding at keeping 1 engineering firm alive, who c

No, because making bridges prohibitively expensive means you are mono-culturing engineering. You are only succeeding at keeping 1 engineering firm alive, who can afford to bid and build mega-expensive projects. Eventually, the megafirm will adopt poor practices. And now, those practices will literally spread out across every single bridge built in the world. You now have a mono-culture of engineering that includes cancer as part of its DNA. Congratulations - you have granted a monopoly to a firm that sells ticking time bombs to your own citizens This is, in essence, NASA, banking, Fannie/Freddie. Errors are a part of nature. They must happen. We are humans and fallible. The question, when errors do happen, how big and hurtful will they be? Small or big ? You can't buy your way out of human error and hubris. This is the fatal conceit.