Casey Handmer
@CJHandmer · Aug 25, 2026
In terms of time, money, and penalties, I think building infrastructure for the common good is actually *more* illegal than murder.
Yes, in principle there's a pathway to permitting anything you want. In practice, it requires either an Act of Congress or a gigantic bribe or
Casey Handmer@CJHandmer· Aug 25, 2026@mattyglesias It's because building anything at all is illegal. We have multiple canal systems built nearly a century ago that leak or can't run anywhere near capacity, because fixing them would (normatively) take two guys and a bulldozer but (descriptively) consume 10 years and billions of
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Doing large projects is almost illegal
06:00 PM · August 25, 2026 · 30.4K views
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