25 July

A much shorter Part 3 on why we need to industrialise house-building. Look at the collapse in productivity of house-building, when it was ‘subbied’ i.e. houses being built on-site, by a range of independent contractors. A 53% decline in productivity in the house-building industry, as a result of that shift. But the subbies got rich and powerful. They will fight this change, because the tradie is an object of worship in Australian culture now. One of the highest status social groups, networked throughout every community.