ScottyB on Nostr: There has been a major movement in construction standards in the U.S -especially ...

There has been a major movement in construction standards in the U.S -especially recently- to move away from quality long term building standards to short term quantity-first preoccupations. If a developer can build a warehouse for less upfront sticker cost, that building will sell more easily than a more quality built building.

The issue is the consumer is failing to account for the long-term cost of ownership, and often times end up paying more in the lifetime of the building than they would have if choosing the latter option.

This is a clear secondary effect of our centrally planned inflationary currency system.

What’s even worse, we’ve existed in this mode for so long that developers have inflated their prices of low-quality construction closer and closer to that of higher quality construction, where consumers now are paying the low quality cost at similar rates of what high quality constructions *would-have* been.

The low-quality discount has been eroded away in rising market premiums for developers.