[gurps] [VEHICLE] of the week 759 - OHI Automated Heavy Lift Shuttle

[rekres]

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:11 PM, David Scheidt <dmscheidt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org> wrote:
>
>> Even in the current modern world, manpower is usually the biggest cost.
>>
>> So it isn't the concrete you have to worry about, it is the union-mandated
>> six person minimum team to supervise the concrete repair bots. :D
>
> We had some concrete flat work (sidewalk and steps) done last year.
> Labor -- including the labor of removing the existing work, was quite
> a bit less than half the cost.  While it's true that labor is the
> dominating cost of much construction work, that will cease to be the
> case at higher tech levels, in most worlds (and certainly not any that
> hew to realistic economics).

Realistic economics and human nature just don't mix.

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Chris J. Whitcomb
"I try to keep an open mind, but my brain keep falling out!"