The major difference being home construction, remodeling, and repair are routinely performed by untrained laborers who are high out of their mind. Some folks weren't raised to work and are apparently very comfortable with a level of helplessness that I can't fathom. Good business for someone I guess.
> The major difference being home construction, remodeling, and repair are routinely performed by untrained laborers who are high out of their mind.
One would have to be out of their mind to hire someone who is untrained and high out of their mind to build a house (or anything else for that matter).
For starters, you wouldn't let them anywhere near power tools because they are a bad accident just waiting to happen. Secondly the quality of the work would tend to be horrendous.
> Some folks weren't raised to work and are apparently very comfortable with a level of helplessness that I can't fathom.
I'm a big advocate of trade schools as an alternative to college, and think we should take steps to bring societal recognition and pride to the trades as found in places like Northern Europe. And certainly a basic set of mechanical skills is very helpful to anyone and should be encouraged.
That said, if you pick the right set of filters to look through, anyone can look helpless in a way that is unfathomable to someone else, so to judge anyone on such a basis is at the least misinformed.
"One would have to be out of their mind to hire someone who is untrained and high out of their mind to build a house (or anything else for that matter)."
Tell me you've never worked in the trades without telling me you never worked in the trades.
"That said, if you pick the right set of filters to look through, anyone can look helpless in a way that is unfathomable to someone else, so to judge anyone on such a basis is at the least misinformed."
Postmodernist navel-gazing aside it isn't unreasonable to expect grown-ass adults to be able to handle maintenance and repairs on their home.
1. Unless you're screwing around with systems work (plumbing, electrical, hvac) there's nothing particularly complicated about the work and honestly even plumbing and electrical work are dead fucking simple compared to wrangling a codebase.
2. The majority of folks were able to clear this low-ass bar 20 years ago.
3. The US is missing two full generations of skilled trades, the odds of being able to attract a talented craftsman to your project are slim and the majority of folks can't afford one when the find them. The aphorism "If you want it done right do it yourself." has never been more true than it is now.
