My new favorite example of infrastructure cost disease: construction of the Eiffel Tower cost $40 million *in 2019 dollars*. (Also, it took 2 years and 2 months to build.)
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The workers who worked on it were paid less than $4,000 annually in today’s dollars - https://www.wonders-of-the-world.net/Eiffel-Tower/Staff-of-the-Eiffel-tower.php … (total labor cost over 25 months was $72,250 francs for 250 workers)
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Mate, did you overread the in today‘s wage part? That means it‘s already adjusted for things like living costs etc.
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