We have stopped building wonders because the modern contractor industry is built deliberately to waste as much money as possible by letting it all go towards middle managers and people at the top.
The government is complicit in financing and upholding this system and has stopped employing people directly to actually do productive building work.
This is hamstringing us, because it means that we are literally uncapble of building great things. All things we try to build will be infinitely delayed and sever times the original budget. Because then, middle managers will be able to suck more money out of the broken system.
Bridges in the US now cost more than entire rail networks back in the day or what the sagrada familia cost over 100 years.
I get the sensationalism but your position is generally wrong. Projects are more expensive because of multiple legitimate reasons (property / land costs, stakeholder costs, building costs, wages, financing costs).
I acknowledge that corruption is a thing. But that’s less of a driver than legitimate costs.
We have stopped building wonders because the modern contractor industry is built deliberately to waste as much money as possible by letting it all go towards middle managers and people at the top.
The government is complicit in financing and upholding this system and has stopped employing people directly to actually do productive building work.
This is hamstringing us, because it means that we are literally uncapble of building great things. All things we try to build will be infinitely delayed and sever times the original budget. Because then, middle managers will be able to suck more money out of the broken system.
Bridges in the US now cost more than entire rail networks back in the day or what the sagrada familia cost over 100 years.
I get the sensationalism but your position is generally wrong. Projects are more expensive because of multiple legitimate reasons (property / land costs, stakeholder costs, building costs, wages, financing costs). I acknowledge that corruption is a thing. But that’s less of a driver than legitimate costs.