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Robert Moses’s construction system distributed benefits to banks, unions, politically connected lawyers, and party bosses, including discounted bond purchases without competitive bidding, jobs, legal fees, and payments for brokering unnecessary bridge insurance.
Dwarkesh Patel · What I learned about power from LBJ and Robert Moses · 29 Oct 2026
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“The banks got to buy his bonds at a steep discount without competitive bidding, the unions got more jobs, politically connected lawyers got legal fees, and party bosses got paid to broker insurance policies to bridges that had no plausible risk of falling down.”13:22Report a misattribution
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