Because waiting five years for a house is a terrible idea?
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How quickly do genetically engineered leylandii grow?
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Slower than a 3D printer can be dropped off and working tomorrow.
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Uberâs âfree lunchâ is quickly getting clobbered in court. What does an obnoxious, commercial law flouting start-up have to do with our impending robot overlords, anyway?
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???
I also wonder if âwomenâsâ work will still be undervalued and underpaid?
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Thereâs parallels because capitalism has always been about cutting corners to find cheaper labor and cut costs and sell a cheaper, crappier thing, labor be damned.
You donât wear New Balance sneakers, do you?
Maybe where you live, but I live in a relatively sparsely populated area. Factory-built houses mean trailer-able mini-homes. Besides, those pre-fab walls need to be finished, adjusted, painted, wired, plumbed, trimmed, etc.
The auto-assembling robots are used in the factory, not in repairs, adjusting your seat, refilling your windshield washer tank. When we get to that stage, I know that humankind is finished.
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No. And youâre still not talking about robot overlords. Youâre talking about shifts in where production is occurring to âmaximize shareholder valueâ, but the labor is still provided by humans.
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Houses built in a day with human overwatch? Thereâs no human labor here:
Observe all these humans getting to work on a bridge 24/7/365, even on holidays:
I want my house made out of grey goo.
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The reason why capitalism is so popular is that people are mostly content to be robotic - as in living out pre-programmed game patterns. If the game is in place, it just runs, and the roles are mostly interchangeable.
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It probably is now. Putting some nicer siding on it wonât change the fact that itâs putting a shedload of workers out to pasture.
WinSunâs 3D-printed villa has several rooms and has been deemed to be up to Chinaâs national safety standards
Thereâs the money quote [emphasis added]. 
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" Prebuilt walls show up on site, eliminating days of laborâŚ"
There have been many attempts at this, most of which failed for the same reason. The poured/built in place foundations must be built to exact measurements in order to accept the pre-built walls just so. Home building labor in particular is very low skill work because nobody wants to work outside in the heat, the cold, the mud, and the rain. Also, the boom and bust cycles mean there is a constant churn in the labor force with people leaving and entering (sans skills) all the time. Which means that you are lucky if the foundations are built within very wide tolerances that the framer can accommodate. And then there is also the transportation problem of delivering anything bigger than a roof truss when things like overhead stoplights and power lines are in the way.
And finally, given all the concern about giving military robots complete weaponry autonomy, how can it be a good idea to give a bunch of nailgun wielding robots the ability to fire at will? What could ever go wrong in that scenario?
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Eventually it will all be robotâs work. I wonder if I will live that long to see it.
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Youâre right. Prebuilt house kits will never work in the US.
I mean, robots with welders, thatâll never work either.
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In fairness to @SteampunkBanana, technology plus time is a bet Iâll take any day of the week.
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Actually, I seem to remember a This Old House, related to rebuilding the Jersey Coast after Sandy. They worked on three different houses, with 3 different families at different income levels, and one of the houses was indeed a prefab house (the working class family)⌠I donât remember if it was built by robots or not. But I think prefab homes have a rocky history, in general - whether thatâs fair or not is another story, but prefabs are often floated as a solution to problems in housing stock, and they never seem to stick - doesnât mean they couldnât in the future, though, especially if middle class expectations about housing change radically in the future:
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CGP Grey has a good video on the whole âreplacing human laborâ thing.
frankly it doensât surprise me more male jobs are taken. Fruit pickers/Harvesters, Welders, automated driving from A to B (be it roads, forklifts, whatever) and so on tend to be male dominated fields.
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