Take a team of 10 engineers and a team of 10 businessmans.
Put each of them on an isolated island and come 10 years later to see which
have more infrastructure in place.
What is this a measure of? How about who has enough to eat and has to
work the least amount of time to get food? Infrastructure is not a
rational measure of productivity unless the infrastructure is positively
necessary to maintain life.
If one lived on an island where a sufficient diet was available just for
the picking one would not need either infrastructure nor weapons.
And you don't know the the CEO's would do in a context where they are no
longer CEO's. Many a CEO is a hobbyist or ex-engineer. He just gave up
his prior trade for one that paid better.
Re: The Crumbling United States of America ...cost of $78.2 billion, or $710 for each motorist, the study said. ... tons of garbage Americans produced was recycled or recovered, ... the engineers said. ... Engineers give U.S. infrastructure poor grades... (soc.retirement)
Could Thomas Friedman must be a progressive? ... They have preferred to invest in defense systems rather than the US infrastructure and US tax dollars are being spent abroad rather than at home. ... Landing at Kennedy Airport from Hong Kong was, as I've argued before, like going from the Jetsons to the Flintstones. ... We've indulged ourselves for too long with tax cuts that we can't afford, bailouts of auto companies that have become giant wealth-destruction machines, energy prices that do not encourage investment in 21st-century renewable power systems or efficient cars, public schools with no national standards to prevent illiterates from graduating and immigration policies that have our colleges educating the world's best scientists and engineers and then, when these foreigners graduate, ordering them to go home and start companies to compete against ours. ... (alt.politics.bush)
The Crumbling United States of America ... The group assigned grades in 15 categories, ... tons of garbage Americans produced was recycled or recovered, ... the engineers said. ... Engineers give U.S. infrastructure poor grades... (soc.retirement)
Re: Why is a North-south railway not being built now? ... As a founder member of the Institution of Civil Engineers,...influence on Britain extended far beyond the projects in which he was ... However, as far as Yorkshire was concerned, its infrastructure would ...Stephensons, Telford, Rennie and Brindley. ... (uk.railway)
