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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We had wildly different work conditions back then. Workplace deaths were daily or at best weekly, vs. a single one would shut down construction today for weeks
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I’ve looked into this a bit and don’t think it can account for the effect. (As far as I can tell, deaths per worker constructing World Trade Center towers exceeded that of Empire State Building, for example.)
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...and he built Disneyland in year while ALSO orchestrating the financing for it by producing a sponsored TV show about its construction... which was his FIRST EVER TV show. Just incredible.
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Two different issues. Grandiosity and timing. My point was simply that govt is really good at engineering projects (Apollo, Los Alamos). Not so good at "solving" poverty. Different kind of problem. But I agree that even govt seems to have gotten worse at execution/timing.
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Not sure how helpful would this be but I think the people behind the project, their work ethic and aspiration matter a lot. We recently published the story of Henry Kaiser, one of the men behind the project and his life story and the history of his businesses mattered a lot. 1/2
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