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Bridges are expensive to build and to maintain. Maybe people could be helped better other ways; economics is about making choices with limited resources.




Guess China's resources aren't as limited as some of their competitors

I've just finished "The Power Broker" about Robert Moses and it mentions a few times that bridges are actually fairly inexpensive to maintain?

That's not economics, that's optimization with inequality constraints.



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