• Tja@programming.dev
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    A house costs a year? There’s a house being built near me and it’s been under construction for about a year by several teams of workers plus the owners every afternoon and weekend. (this is in Germany so it’s not made of matches and paper). And that’s not counting the hours needed to extract the raw materials and process them into bricks, insulation, glass, cables or pipes. There’s a TON of labor to build a modern house.

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      Are they working all through the night? One man working 40 hours a week with no sickness but including 5 weeks holidays per year works 1880 hours. A year of hours is 8760.

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        No, they work during the day, Monday through Friday and the owners on weekends too. Usually they get 6 weeks of PTO and about 13 more days of public holidays.

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      Skill issue. They build houses out of concrete here in China in like a month, in Japan they use wood and do the same, tho they lose all value after 30 years.

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        Yeah, but we have Ethernet in every room, filtered ventilation systems, heat pumps, solar with storage, water acconditioning systems and in winter we can heat it up by a fart.

        Plus our workers don’t do 996 and have sick days, vacation and others.

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              With >10x the population of Germany, we should expect >10x more collapses. In any case, what exactly are you against? Using central planning to keep prices low by ensuring the necessary amount of concrete and steel are produced while enough builders are educated? Or is it just because it’s chinese?

              Japan has more people than Germany and doesn’t take a year to build a single house.

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          Nah, skill issue. We can build a house in under a year in India, and India is … India. The only difference is we don’t usually have the heating infrastructure since we don’t need it.

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      I mean, maybe. But a year seems like a lot for a full team, so either that team is not working as much and as consistently as you’d think OR that house is worth a lot more than a year.