Why do Americans build houses out of cardboard?
Why do Americans build houses out of cardboard?
Ayden Morgan
Tyler Sanders
Because we can.
Asher Reyes
That's probably some cheap housing, the houses I've seen usually solid wood and external brick, just like the UK.
Joseph Bell
We have a lot of Amazon boxes.
Eli Allen
There are no sources of "solid wood" e.g. old growth wood left in North America. There are barely any left in Europe. When was the last time you felt a solid wood anything? When was the last time you saw solid wood (no panelling, no ply, no pulped nonsense) in anything built in the last 40 years?
It's gone. We only grow young pine now, and have to process it to shit to be worth anything at all.
Jaxson Jones
Ok but what about clay?
Justin Harris
But why wood?
Why not this...
Gavin Thomas
...or this...
Jeremiah Torres
...or this?
Colton Stewart
A lot of contractors are ex cons. They're trying to extract as much money out of investors while minimizing costs building as cheap as possible, while maximizing the amount of labour time because it's all a scam they want to keep running as long as possible. The investors will have invested so much they have to hire someone else to come in and fix specific issues about it after. It's called a sunk cost fallacy. You already did so much work that you have to see it through. These people thrive off exploiting workers and investors. They walk away with a lot of money from doing this. It's not like they can get a real job, they have a fat wife and drug addicted kids they have to provide for.