Yebbut I'm talking about government. I'm talking about a bureaucracy with legitimacy and an army.
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the basic principal-agent problems still apply except now the agent-bureaucracy has as army at its disposal
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that's ... um ... not necessarily to the principals' advantage.
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Yeah, this rolls back to the original point about highway infrastructure. Don't have personal knowledge, but...
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...I've heard that the Crumbling Infrastructure thing is basically a marketing point for the construction industry.
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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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Replying to @TACJ @schakalsynthetc
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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