I'm not sure how you can conclude that for any infrastructure project, complexity scales sublinearly. This feels true in software, but not real world matters IMO.
Think of all of the politics & hard choices involved, for instance, in displacing people vs. bending over backwards to accommodate them with the California high speed rail project.
Think of all of the politics & hard choices involved, for instance, in displacing people vs. bending over backwards to accommodate them with the California high speed rail project.