[stickfigure]

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

[SturgeonsLaw]

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

[arethuza]

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

[imtringued]

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