Why Does It Cost So Much to Build Things in America?
29th June 2021
Vox finds an acorn … almost.
There’s no one simple reason for this. Experts are clamoring for the government to collect more data, but the complexity of the problem lends itself to complex solutions.
So they know acorns exist, they just can’t be bothered to do the work to find some.
In an interview in early June, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg acknowledged the problem, but he offered no solutions except the need to study it further.
Hey, he didn’t join the cabinet to do any actual work, after all.