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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Tokyo Tower: $26 million present dollars (back in 1958). I think that Japan could still do it for about $100~200 million today, but my confidence in that estimate is low. (How strange that 4X~8X disimprovement in 70 years sounds like bragging...)
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I plugged the numbers in a calculator and got morehttps://twitter.com/ArtirKel/status/1187761341458767872?s=19 …
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Weird. I used the same calculator and the same stat and got a different result, but got your result when I re-used it.
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