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Originally Posted by wind_magic View Post
I really intended to simply be comparing the amounts of money and the scale of the projects - one bridge vs. subsidies for the entire countries agricultural industry. In short, I was simply using the bridge to show how small an amount of money we are talking about when we are talking about subsidies ... the fact that it was New York City would be related more to Sway's point.
Naturally, but I think the comparison would be more relevant if you took into account the sizes of the populations of the two regions, or their economies, or at least the number of users of farms vs. users of bridges. In other words the comparison isn't valid because we're talking two very different scales.
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