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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
What was the cost in this case? The day wage of a few city labourers to remove it? That's actually a sunk cost...so what was the opportunity cost? An employee at city hall gets their new office chair delivered one day later? I guess it'll be whatever it costs to replace it with something...but pretty much everyone seems to agree that an additional plaque would be necessary with or without removal of the statue.
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Further to this, it's not like City Hall here is exactly a hotspot for tourism. I doubt anyone who goes by that statue doesn't know who it is. Well I mean if they can recognize it beyond the garish hunk of copper and bird crap that it is.