
Episode 124: Berlin-Brandenburg Airport
Well There‘s Your Problem
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The Global History of a Disappointment
This was like capitalism's version of like the terracotta army, you know? I'm just coming at this from a US construction cost and construction duration perspective. The thing about this airport is that this building that you were looking at cost 7.3 billion euros to build and took 16 years of construction after groundbreaking to open. This is one of these fun stories of public private partnerships, dozens of layers of opaque subcontracting arrangements where no one's actually in charge. All that kind of legal corruption, plenty of illegal corruption. All this just depends in the sky. Yes. As we will find out at the end to deport refugees in asylum seekers.
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