Tesla has roughly 140K employees and made 930K cars in 2023. That's roughly 320 hours of their total employee time per car or one person working 40 hours a week

Tesla has roughly 140K employees and made 930K cars in 2023. That's roughly 320 hours of their total employee time per car or one person working 40 hours a week for 8 weeks / 2 months. Building a house involves multiple people over many months. Yes those people may be getting paid less but you are easily talking about an order of magnitude more effort. On top of that, the raw materials are expensive. If you just priced out the cost for concrete and steel for the foundation, wood (studs / plywood) and drywall for the walls, windows, siding, roofing, you are talking tens of thousands of dollars, if not more. You said construction cost only but on top of that there is also the cost for the land. That alone can be a huge chunk of any home price (just look up what an empty lot costs). Looking in an area I'm interested a lot looks like it could be 1/3 to 1/2 the cost of the home (if I built).