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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Because we didn’t care about the environmental devastation that large building projects like the Hoover Dam would cause while it was being built. We also didn’t give two shits about the people being affected downstream of it either and we cared much less about worker’s safety than we do now.

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