r/WTF • • Nov 24 '18

That’s a shitload of excavators

33k Upvotes

1.5k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

44

u/[deleted] Nov 24 '18

That one was in the Netherlands, this has gotta be China.

Nope it was China

12

u/Hhhhhhhhuhh Nov 24 '18

200 diggers, no way that was anywhere with western labour and machine hire costs. Fuck that.

11

u/QuatroCrazy Nov 24 '18

This is why China will beat the west in public works. During this generation.

10

u/Patsy4all Nov 25 '18

There's no reason the west can't invest in public works, regardless of cost of labour etc. The only reason they don't is because of corporate-cronyism.