Originally Posted by
ernest dubois
To Marc Bolton, Here I make no claims either but am just going along with your conversation and adding my perspective. Your figuring does make a certain sense and of course it all needs to be taken measure of but I don't think it gets at the whole picture, you got the costs up there but not the opportunity costs for one, that is to say while someone is out making the buck to feed into the economy you are talking about, there are things, activities that one is giving up in that process. I never have been able to make any sense of a logic that dictates spending the bulk of my time doing something maybe not even necessarily related to my interests, to facilitate my true life.
I also differ in the whole conceptualization. This is a way of covering or completing a wall, a means of protection from the elements, that's it, not copying a certain historical style or living a fantasy. When the choice is made that it is the way to go forward than it should be done right. To draw comparisons really is not helpful. I can imagine an argument for some kind of artificial maybe even a super cheap sheeting made up from petroleum byproducts or even better, cast composite materials based on a mineralized fiber mined from deep in the ground that would even be fire proof and cheap at the box store. Can you tell me where the comparison begins? I don't know.