[John Jorsett]

How many of you would believe though, that in the roofing industry the rate is $40 (yea, that's right forty dollars) for every hundred dollars of payroll. Even worse are umpires for sports teams... Over $50 per hundred dollars of payroll.

I've heard that for roofers in CA it's over $100 per $100. I don't want to think what a new roof is going to cost me one of these days.

[Reeses]

At that level roofing work might be a good candidate for being done by robot. If built with a wireless internet connection and web cam, the robot supervisor could stay in Mexico with his family.