Experiences with construction cost savings through self-performance?

  • Erstellt am 2024-10-20 16:03:24

nordanney

2024-10-22 17:42:13
  • #1
I can well understand that. But one should not forget that many do-it-yourselfers, due to little time for their families, are now single again – but have built a house that they had to sell again before or after completion.
 

MachsSelbst

2024-10-22 20:00:28
  • #2
I believe far more couples separate because they massively go into debt to get everything done and then perish due to financial worries... but that is, as always, a matter of opinion.
 

MachsSelbst

2024-10-22 20:15:28
  • #3
PS:
It's anyway a pretty woke Bullerbü idea that daddy is home all weekend taking care of the kids while mommy makes the food in the Thermomix and sips Prosecco on the side...
(But for those who know the films. Even in Bullerbü life was pretty tough; in one film the children harvest potatoes, weed, walk 6km on foot to the store, etc.)

75% of our Western world wouldn't work like that... globally it's 95%...

I always have to shake my head at the ideas many people have nowadays and then I think of my colleagues in China.
0-5 days of vacation, 40, 45 hours per week...
 

elminster

2024-10-22 20:22:24
  • #4
I am glad that things are not like they were in Sweden 100 years ago or nowadays in China. Compared to that we have a lot of free time, of course. But you really can't transfer those two comparisons to our world.
 

MachsSelbst

2024-10-22 20:26:28
  • #5
If you consider that companies can hardly find people willing to spend even a single weekend away for assembly or commissioning. We experience this every day, it is now much more threatening to existence than energy prices or anything else. Well, that leads too far now.

But the basic problem remains. Everyone wants to have. No one wants to do anything for it anymore.
 

chand1986

2024-10-22 21:48:40
  • #6

For me, it is difficult to deal with a comment to which I have to both disagree and agree at the same time.
Today, in Germany (honestly in the EU), it is much more expected that the employer also gives something and does not just simply take in return for corresponding compensation.
That's true!
At the same time, this expectation is a result of successes. *Because* such "good" work has been and is being done, this claim exists at all. You may be opposed to wealth increase, okay. But above all, it is a consequence of it.
The average mentality is demonstrably such that people discard those concepts that made them successful once success has set in. There are studies on this.

It is the scientific version of "we are doing too well."
The real question is whether such a statement is harmful.
The opposing statement would be that we would be better off if we were worse off: one immediately sees the problem.
 
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