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Brian Potter - Future of Construction, Ugly Modernism, & Environmental Review

Dwarkesh Podcast

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Is There a Talent Drain in the Engineering Field?

The average age of a construction worker is like somewhere in the forties or perhaps fifties. So people are constantly complaining that they can't get enough skilled labor. This also pushes you toward figuring out how to spread your engineering effort over a larger volume output. The incentives kind of push the other way and you try to even lower your your quality, he says.

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