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6 Post author: Algon 03 May 2015 06:16PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 04 May 2015 01:41:00PM 3 points [-]

There is a different issue with construction, which Robert Heinlein pointed out 70 years ago. Basically imagine that buying a car would mean a bunch of workmen going to your site and hand assembling one there. How inefficient it would be. I.e. the issue is the lack of mass manufacturing of (obviously modular) houses from subassemblies, like every sane manufacturing process.

Of course prefabs exist but they should have became the dominant model long ago.

3D printing is another custom-assembly thing at the end. Why can't we just prefab?