A frustrating day

Published 4 days ago • 1 min read

Me toca los huevos overspending… it touches my balls.

I hate it when I do it myself, despite being quite disciplined.

But I can control this.

What I can’t control is when my money is wasted by the government.

My taxes are my money.

Period.

And it hurts when they through it through the window.

Or simply burn it.

Infrastructures now.

Many governments overbuild.

They have a inter urban highway between their eyes.

They want it.

Traffic could potentially be around 30.000 vehicles a day.

But they want "future-proofing" the corridor.

Let’s plan and prepare the whole thing for 3 lanes per direction.

Result, they end up with underutilized highways and massive upfront CAPEX.

For nothing.

Just following population growth, it does not seem logic the need of a 3+3 highways in 50 years… even more.

In PPPs, overdimensioned roads can kill the financial model.

If purely availability or just a small toll fee… you’re going to be fried by taxes to pay for the new pyramids.

Lots of dollars will be buried there… for millennia.

Because, joder, who know if we’ll use cars in 50 years from now!

Please, take a look to these lessons.

Overspending kills your pocket, your project, and potentially your career.

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