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Kenneth T. Jackson - Robert Moses, Hero of New York?
Dwarkesh Podcast
New York City Won't Work Without Infrastructure
If you take climate change seriously, probably to build some sort of infrastructure to prevent rising water from sinking the city. New York City simply won't work if you reduce the density or you get rid of underground transportation. I actually believe that Moses was first and foremost a builder. He really wanted to build things, change things. And if you said, we'll pay you to build tunnels, I think he would have built tunnels. Who knows?"
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