strange to consider a $1.2 trillion dollar infrastructure bill hiding behind roads, which we will not be building, in the context of the interstate highway system, which we built in its entirety for less than half that cost
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we funded the human genome project for less than $3 billion dollars. the manhattan project, which ended world war II and launched a new scientific era, cost $23 billion dollars. apollo: for a quarter of this infrastructure bill, america built a gateway to the cosmos.
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today, after our trillion dollar mountain of newly-minted cash finishes burning, what will be meaningfully different about our world?
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But ser. These numbers must be normalized or it’s like comparing men’s basketball teams of the 50s to today’s teams - same numbers used to describe the performance and totally nonsensical way to benchmark how one would compare to the other.
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If the bill did 75% of what it aims to at the price it says & 2x time planned, would it be worth it?
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You’ll enjoy this: https://patrickcollison.com/fast
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these are all inflation adjusted
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Don’t forget $15B on 738 miles of “beautiful border wall”, or about 5x what the last administration paid to add to the wall. Only $20M a mile!
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