Why does it take so much longer to build in the US compared to 50+ years ago?

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It took a year to build the Empire State Building, and 5 years to build the Hoover Dam yet current estimates for the Francis Scott Key bridge rebuild are near 10 years. Why is this? Have we regressed?

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Safety. When they were building the Empire State Building, unemployed people would gather underneath waiting for someone to fall off. Then they would scramble to the foreman and the position would be filled before the poor guy even hit the ground.

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