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Robots May Help Build Your Next Home and Solve a Labor Shortage
The American Journal of Transportation ^ | April 17, 2017 | Prashant Gopal and Heather Perlberg

Posted on 04/17/2017 3:35:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 04/17/2017 3:35:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There is no labor shortage. There is a labor glut brought on by illegal border crossings and bad trade deals.

Once that begins to correct under the current administration the demand for labor will go up. This will drive up wages (to something livable) and US citizens will reenter the work force. The welfare drain will slow, and taxes will be reduced - even while total tax revenues skyrocket.

MAGA.


2 posted on 04/17/2017 3:42:12 PM PDT by TheTimeOfMan (A time for peace and a time for war)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I would really like to see a robot realize he has run out of nails and make a quick dash to Home Depot.


3 posted on 04/17/2017 3:42:33 PM PDT by Slyfox (Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
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To: TheTimeOfMan

But to address the actual article - factory made house make more economic sense than custom built in most cases.


4 posted on 04/17/2017 3:43:36 PM PDT by TheTimeOfMan (A time for peace and a time for war)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What labor shortage? We have plenty of unemployed engineers in Texas and the numbers are growing.


5 posted on 04/17/2017 3:44:12 PM PDT by 353FMG (AMERICA FIRST.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Draw your dream home on the back of a napkin, drop it in the scanner, hit print...

Move in a week...


6 posted on 04/17/2017 3:48:20 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: TheTimeOfMan

The wwges in construction arebjust fine, Mexican or no Mexican.

You’ll open up more jobs for Americans...


7 posted on 04/17/2017 3:52:48 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The robots do not come to work with a hangover, the robots do not come with the cost of Obamacare and the robots do not join the union.


8 posted on 04/17/2017 3:52:58 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

95 million people who are not working and should be, and these dummies say there is a labor shortage. Time for a reality check.


9 posted on 04/17/2017 3:58:26 PM PDT by Parmy
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It is finally going to build me my Dream home,and for jack sh!t.Who knew that day would come.
10 posted on 04/17/2017 3:59:00 PM PDT by Del Rapier
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To: TheTimeOfMan

Yeah but, now the cost for your custom home has been reduced as has the time rewuired to complete so, you can afford more house, reduce the cost or afford better finishes...


11 posted on 04/17/2017 4:00:55 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: TheTimeOfMan

“There is no labor shortage. There is a labor glut brought on by illegal border crossings and bad trade deals.”

Absolutely right.

And these trends are finally heading in the right direction.


12 posted on 04/17/2017 4:01:17 PM PDT by Paulie (America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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To: Slyfox

Probably would end up being closer to an online order and drone delivery, if we’re looking at possibilities.


13 posted on 04/17/2017 4:06:52 PM PDT by Luircin (Dancing in the streets! Time to DRAIN THE SWAMP!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Blueprint are actually helping to ease a labor shortage that has crimped construction of residences and commercial properties across the country.

For a country whit a "labor shortage" it sure is odd that wages have been flat for decades.

14 posted on 04/17/2017 4:08:57 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Labor shortage” + “Record Food Stamps” = “Does Not Compute”.


15 posted on 04/17/2017 4:09:19 PM PDT by cincinnati65
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hey automation is fine just don’t blow smoke up my butt and tell me there is a labor shortage in the USA.


16 posted on 04/17/2017 4:10:59 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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Yarborough said she’s not interested in learning more about traditional construction. Before joining Blueprint, she took a free, six-month course on computer numerical control machines, available only to unemployed or low-income adults.


Any comments?


18 posted on 04/17/2017 4:12:41 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Custom built homes increase in value, a manufactured home decreases in value each year when a person can get new model each year. It is more like a car.


19 posted on 04/17/2017 4:13:49 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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Then strike back while the iron is hot... Insert name and info like this...


20 posted on 04/17/2017 4:16:17 PM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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