Engineers Discover "Best Before" Dates

Yup!  Everything we build eventually wears out.  Airplane designers have known this for decades.  Planes have “best before dates” that are adhered to because otherwise they do fall out of the sky.

But what about bridges and skyscrapers and highways and overpasses and nuclear plants and more?  Sorry folks.  There is a problem.  Most of our infrastructure today is over fifty years old and it was cheaply built to boot.  It has long since exceeded safe lifespan objectives.

Cities, states and countries are bankrupt.  Domestic sources of primary building materials are exhausted.  Our steel industry is in ruins and our labor costs are uncompetitive.

We passed a tipping point long ago and nobody has noticed.  Why?  Because hippies now run the world and it’s hard to see bridges and buildings through a cloud of pot smoke.

But there is some good news.  What’s the good news?  When you’re stoned it really doesn’t matter if the bridges fall down.