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A cartoon depicts a chasm with a rope bridge, once connecting both sides, cut and hanging from the side of the cliff, sabotaged by a suit standing on the well forested right side beside a spool of rope and holding a saw. The left side of the chasm is a wasteland of sawn tree stumps. There’s a sign that reads “Please return saw and rope when done”. An empty box sits beneath the sign. The suit calls out to a person in the wasteland on the left side of the chasm “BUILD YOUR OWN DAMN BRIDGE LIKE I DID!” The person in the wasteland replies “WITH WHAT?! “

Caption: Capitalism at its finest

h/t to @dgar@aus.social

  • Bernie Ecclestoned@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Yes, one is construction, one is maintenance… These are different things…

    Why do you think bridges need rebuilding? How many times has Arkadiko Bridge been rebuilt?

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I see. So one bridge has never been rebuilt and that means all bridges out of hundreds or thousands of bridges in a country last forever.

      Also, why would there be two different crews? You do know maintaining a bridge involves doing many of the same things you have to do when you build one, right? I don’t know where you live, but that sounds like a colossal waste of money.

      • Bernie Ecclestoned@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Lol. How many maintenance crews are pouring thousands of tons of steel reinforced concrete?

        How many architects are maintaining bridges?

        It’s ok to admit when you’re wrong you know?

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Bridge maintenance requires pouring concrete all the time. Because concrete weakens over time. I know you think bridges last forever with no need to do anything but tighten a bolt here and there, but that is not how something with heavy vehicles passing over it constantly works. Roads have to be regularly repaved too. They use the same crews that lay the road down in the first place. You know that, right? You really don’t understand why it would be more expensive to have two completely different crews?

          Seriously, you don’t know anything about construction.

          Speaking of admitting you’re wrong…

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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              1 year ago

              Sorry, stopped reading at the insult. I will not pay attention to anything you have to say unless you can talk to me without insulting me. If you can’t, we are done here.

              • Bernie Ecclestoned@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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                1 year ago

                Sorry, but you are trying to argue that black is white. It’s pointless.

                You then present my argument back to me that it is expensive to have two specialised teams.

                A maintenance crew does not build bridges. It would be too expensive to have architects and engineers sitting around waiting for a bridge to be built

                It’s an inefficient use of capital, which was my initial point… Just saying socialism fixes all problems is naive at best.

                • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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                  1 year ago

                  Are you going to stop insulting me? Because I don’t see a reason to continue this conversation unless I know that this post isn’t just the preamble to a future insult.