Visiting the Hoover Dam feels to me like visiting a rift into an alternate timeline—one in which we attempt enormous, absurd, starry-eyed projects… and achieve them, under budget and years ahead of schedule! I’d love to better understand the forces which made that possible.
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Dangerous to infer too much from just two examples. But I wonder if we simply got a lot better at safe construction from the 30s to the 60s?
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After workers comp laws made accidents expensive we suddenly improved for some reason!
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What's even more incredible is that this is still ~30 times more causalities than due to Fukushima disaster. And yet Fukushima shocked the whole world.
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