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If you wanna build a really cool building out of stone, save up your money until you have enough to build it with cash. That's what the men who built those cool
by hugh3 16y ago
If you wanna build a really cool building out of stone, save up your money until you have enough to build it with cash. That's what the men who built those cool old buildings did.
- Alex3917 16y agoIt also helps if you can wait until a period of enormous wealth inequality so that skilled labor is basically free.
- jfb 16y agoWait?
- nikcub 16y agoThats what Dubai and Abu Dhabi did. Waited for the slave labour to arrive
- SkyMarshal 16y agoGive it a year or so, if the Govt and Fed can't stave off deflation anymore, will be perfect timing then.
- HeyLaughingBoy 16y agoI don't have data, but I suspect that labor costs these days are lower than they were back then due to a greater use of machinery. e.g., a foundation trench that would have taken a dozen men a week to dig with pickaxes, shovels and wheelbarrows can be done with one guy and a BobCat in a day. Don't forget that technology offers massive leverage in construction.
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- jonhendry 16y agoOr they announced a special sale on indulgences.
- c1utch 16y agoDoesn't Groupon sell those now?
- jonhendry 16y agoI saw some online during a Woot-off, between LED toenail clippers and the 'bag of crap'.
- SkyMarshal 16y agoThat was either one of the more hilarious comments I've read on HN, or I'm too drunk to know any better. Either way, have an upboat.
- DevX101 16y agoIf you're talking about centuries old buildings, wealth back then was usually accumulated by way of your family passing along wealth, your inclusion in the favored aristocratic class of the era, or through businesses built on slavery.
- sliverstorm 16y agoI think they mostly depended on: 1) extremely cheap to free labor. 2) community effort. Everybody contributed to important buildings. Private homes would be built by the entire family, and possibly neighbors too.