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    1. Andy Matuschak‏Verified account @andy_matuschak 24 Oct 2019
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      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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    2. Russell Roberts‏ @EconTalker 24 Oct 2019
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      The same forces that can achieve such goals struggle to figure out what the goals should be. Top-down societies can do amazing things and amazingly wasteful things. They struggle to take account of what might have been and are prone to corruption.

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    3. Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc 24 Oct 2019
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      But many of the projects were not top-down in that sense and I don’t think such central orchestration is a precondition. Walt Disney built Disneyland in a year.

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    4. Nathan Harris‏ @Mordil 24 Oct 2019
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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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      Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc 24 Oct 2019
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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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        1. Joel Janney‏ @JoelJanney 24 Oct 2019
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          Again I recommend @zackkanter paradox of choice explanation. There were many, many ways to build the Hoover Dam. It was not built in the best way to get the maximum possible results for the money spent. Today, there are layers upon layers of decisions made by specialists.

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