Infrastructure Lessons from Venice

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(04-05-2017, 03:40 PM)fredtoast Wrote: That is a fascinating story.  Where did that happen?

BTW 40,000 troops X 10 days X $25 an hour= $240 million

It was the first bridged crossing of the Rhine river. Previously people could only ever cross it in boats.


BTW, you've obviously never been in the military if you think they're making $25 an hour. A basic E-2 Private makes just under $1,800 a month in 2017. That's $21,600 a year.

Even if we assume you get weekends off in the field (lol) and work only 8 hours a day (LOL) 52 weeks a year, that is 2,080 hours a year, or roughly $10.38/hr. That's with the assumption you get all weekends off and only work 8 hours a day, which simply isn't anywhere close to reality.

Also back from modern military to the Romans again, know that they made nowhere near the amount a modern US military member does. Not to mention often their end payment was instead of money, they were given a piece of land in the Roman frontier territories to settle.