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Re:Fighting to Replace America’s Water Pipes by droro on Friday December 22, 2017 @07:49AM (#15987061)
Our ability to produce manufactured goods has very little to do with our ability to build infrastructure.

Construction productivity in the U.S. is actually DROPPING:

https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/08/daily-...

https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/capital-projects-and-inf...

http://harvardcgbc.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Wang_2Page...

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Re:Fighting to Replace America’s Water Pipes by maxerickson on Friday December 22, 2017 @08:21AM (#15987198)
Right, but per worker productivity in the construction industry isn't a growth limit (the claim I was addressing), it is something else.
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