Infrastructure Lessons from Venice

[Benton]

(04-05-2017, 06:11 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: 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.

I think fred's point with the $25 is that's what it would cost for general labor in modern times to repair a modern bridge. And that's not including heavy equipment operators who make a little more or steel guys who make double that, easily in some places.

I don't think it would go over well if the governmen t started using enlisted soldiers to keep cost down on projects.