and I’m not having a go at you - I don’t put you in the bonehead bucket
I just think that - I agree there’s been no large infrastructure spend for decades
my point is that our society has changed it’s economic base in that time
just a few things
if we built something big
raw materials-
We don’t own the mines
We have a far smaller mining force for the same amount of material produced
We have FIFO for that smaller force
we don’t own the airlines
we don’t produce the steel, we aren’t using the coal
For the building
We use far less people
We have a skills shortage
we don’t build the vehicles or equipment that’s required for the building
it just goes on and on and on
then - on top of that- we have the same issues as we always had with using big projects as a stimulus - they are slow to start
we will need rapid start
we would also be building some projects that we only need if we’re going to increase population - which there’s a large popular feeling resistance for that.
To me - the big project idea in infrastructure is way past it’s use by
it’s NOT
a. Going to achieve the stated objective
b. It’s not in the least going to power Oz into a very high tech robotic/fully automated future
