WalleyeWarrior

The barges were just a little less than a few meters wide. The manpower to build a 100km long canal that is 2.5-3 meters wide is substantially less than what it takes to dig one 8 meters wide in the era before steam shovels.

Not really. Most of these old canals were only a couple yards/meters wide and dried up 100 years ago.

I’m not gonna remember anything you said to me 2 days ago. But I can tell you what you said 2 years ago if that helps

Economics were good if you lived in a western country. Former Soviet Block, Yugoslavia, and global South countries were having a rough go of thing in the 90s

Is that why tech bros keep trying to bring back phrenology?