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   Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 21:53:02 JST Bread up, Bro
   this "white people just simply can't do construction" thing is crazy simply because how POPULAR it is for people to say
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 21:57:50 JST Bread up, Bro

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     people that say stuff like that are the prototypical urban bugman who is terrified of building physical things and masks the fear with a disdain for the work.
     
     Ordering kits for houses from Sears - this is the real history of this country.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 22:01:25 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @Bill_Boone in a similar vein this guy appears to be some sort of "conservative"
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     Bill_Boone (bill_boone@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 22:01:26 JST Bill_Boone

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     @sickburnbro My dad is convinced that niggers had to be imported because White men couldn't pick cotton in the hot south...
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     HAPPYPOTAMUS (happypotamus@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 22:06:58 JST HAPPYPOTAMUS

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     wypipo be building things
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 22:22:13 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • ?uper?nekFriend ?
     @SuperSnekFriend that's not the labor, the land, the cement or plumbing ( or electrical, but that would have been seen as a luxury in 1921 )
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     ?uper?nekFriend ? (supersnekfriend@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 22:22:14 JST ?uper?nekFriend ?

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     Not a bad house.
     >only $2,472
     I hate this country.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 22:23:22 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • ?uper?nekFriend ?
     @SuperSnekFriend oh and not the brick either, so you were looking at a good bit more in expenses on top of it to get it finished.
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     RaHoWaJoe (rahowajoe@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 22:23:31 JST RaHoWaJoe

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     @sickburnbro @Bill_Boone This is the mark of a guy who has a Guatamalan friend or a half Hispanic relative.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 22:24:35 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @RaHoWaJoe @Bill_Boone yup. lots of "conservative" guys who knows a central american that "does their reno project cheap ( shit quality and he doesn't know better )"
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 22:25:38 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @RaHoWaJoe @Bill_Boone I've seen their ideas of how to get stuff done in renovactions and it's a mixture of laziness and pure immunity to fear of causing death traps
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 22:30:35 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • ?uper?nekFriend ?
     @SuperSnekFriend $2225 in 1921 would be ~$40k now, and thats not even assuming shadowstats.
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     ?uper?nekFriend ? (supersnekfriend@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 22:30:36 JST ?uper?nekFriend ?

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     I'm perfectly fine with providing labor and cement was like candy.
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     pyrate (pyrate@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 22:31:23 JST pyrate

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     @sickburnbro @Bill_Boone @RaHoWaJoe
     
     The grind they work is only because they get paid on the quantity of their output, not the quality. I've dealt with spic contractors. In some cases they have taken over entire companies.
     
     And it is really tiresome.
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     ?uper?nekFriend ? (supersnekfriend@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 22:38:37 JST ?uper?nekFriend ?

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     Ok, but wage purchasing power was far better then. The average income was about $3,500. So you only needed two years worth of wages as an average citizen to buy that house and supplies, probably around five years if you shared saving money with other expenses.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 22:40:05 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @SuperSnekFriend For sure, and land was cheaper. But its critical to realize that this wasn't crazy cheap - you still were going to put in a ton of time in labor building it -- and no power tools, so the going would have been quite slow. ( imagine sawing that much trim )
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 22:40:22 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @SuperSnekFriend I'm having mitre box PTSD
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 23:14:35 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @stoner713 @SuperSnekFriend I love sharpening saws, but never when I'm in the middle of something.
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     • ?uper?nekFriend ?
     @sickburnbro @SuperSnekFriend >imagine sawing that much trim
     
     Imagine how many times you would have to sharpen your saws. Chisels? And don't get me started on gimlets and drill bits. NGL, this kinda gets me excited.
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     • ?uper?nekFriend ?
     @sickburnbro @SuperSnekFriend If the project is a long one, sharpening becomes a begin the day thing, at least for me. I tried the end of the day, but I too often put it off and ended up doing it while drinking a cup and a pipe the next morning.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 23:18:58 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @stoner713 @SuperSnekFriend yeah, that makes good sense. Just need to make it a "this is what you do in the morning" and I guess if you were using a saw a lot, at lunch too.
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     :spinnenrad: Eiregoat :spinnenrad: (eiregoat@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 23:22:35 JST :spinnenrad: Eiregoat :spinnenrad:

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     • ?uper?nekFriend ?
     That's still nothing compared to modern houses.
     
     By the time you put in all the green-shit, disabled access for the wheelchair you don't have and pay off all the box checkers it'll cost ten times that.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 23:22:35 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @Eiregoat @SuperSnekFriend right, but if we are comparing "cost to build this house, today" I don't know if the cost for those parts alone is radically off true inflation.
     
     The "cost to build what normal people consider a house" is way higher, but that's something different.