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A common misconception
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this post was submitted on 03 May 2026
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Seriously, there's a reason we don't "build like the Romans". We would be using 10x the concrete that we use now. We can't even keep up with concrete demand now, I can't even imagine how much worse the environment would already be if we needed 10x the concrete.
Yes I've been to the Pantheon and those walls are thicc
If we needed 10x the concrete, we wouldn't have built so many cheap ugly concrete buildings.