Interestingly, the design of beams and the like (used for columns) still means tensile strength is the limiting factor, not compressive strength.
For compressive strength alone to matter, you’d essentially need a solid steel column - which is so prohibitively heavy, it would often end up collapsing under it’s own weight (in tensile failure, most likely) before it got up to a useful height.
For compressive strength alone to matter, you’d essentially need a solid steel column - which is so prohibitively heavy, it would often end up collapsing under it’s own weight (in tensile failure, most likely) before it got up to a useful height.