it's why "paying someone to paint your fence" doesn't generalize to "government jobs program"
Not because the infrastructure isn't crumbling, but something more subtle: it's decaying *useless* infrastructure.
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Roads that don't go anywhere, that were built...mostly as stimulus, as handouts to construction, as bragging points.
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The infrastructure that's actually used is mostly ok, most places--bc people have skin in the game for it.
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How would one go about determining if this was true or not?
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Talk to someone with a background in highway construction, probably. Or compare news to press releases.
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This comes up https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/crumbling-infrastructure … but ofc. it's propaganda on the other side.
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This is the group driving the claim: http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/
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yeah, the assumption "infrastructure is necessary and good" passes unexamined too often for my comfort
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there are reasons places that don't already have things like POTS or water-carried sewer systems aren't building them
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