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" ... Professor Petroski uses as an example how his house in Maine was built of good quality timber well carpentered and it thus still stands, near maintenance free, 60 years later. As opposed to modern housing which seems to be built of whatever scraps they found at the timber yard with a bit of drywall stick inbetween the sticks. However, we should realise that this is telling us an important economic lesson: we can now make houses using lower skilled labour and cheaper materials. That is, we've become better at building housing. ... "