The Baumol Effect and Jevons paradox are related

TekMol

    you accidentally knock a hole in your wall,
    it’s probably cheaper to buy a flatscreen TV
    and stick it in front of the hole

What I recently did is that I 3D-printed an object with PLA that exactly fit the whole and just glued that in with assembly glue.

What does the HN panel say? Is it a solution? Or does it have any downside?

nocoiner

I commend you for your imagination. Can I ask how you crafted the object to match the dimensions? I’m brand new to 3D printing and currently climbing the learning curve of printing itself but will want to start learning about doing my own modeling soon.

The only criticism I’d make is that patching drywall is dead simple and cheap and so your solution seems possibly a bit overengineered (and, while I’m at it, that Andreesen’s observation is both facile and meaningless and is probably a reflection more of the bids Marc Andreesen’s house manager gets than anything insightful about labor costs in America).

nom

It's an acceptable solution only if you used it as an excuse to buy a 3D scanner.

abakker

Welll, if you were good at drywall already, drywall patches would be faster and better. But if you are good at printing and scanning, and you enjoy that process, then it’s fine.

The challenge with the example is that “success” is personal preference. With plenty of examples, the success criteria are external.

aeve890

It works so :shrug: I did the same to replace a part of a door frame I had to remove to make space for a washing machine 4 mm too wide. Nobody sell 400 mm of door frame so i just copied the frame shape, printed in 3 parts, and that was it. Filament color matched the frame one so I didn't have to paint.

meken

> If you can make $30 an hour as a digital freelance marketer (a job that did not exist a generation ago), then you won’t accept less than that from working in food service. And if you can make $150 an hour installing HVAC for data centers, you’re not going to accept less from doing home AC service.

Plenty of people work jobs for less money because they enjoy the work more. I’m not sure if it’s worth reading what follows if most of the argument is predicated on this claim.

lkey

I don't think any 'interesting thought' that serves as a conclusion to an article should begin like so:

| 'With radiologists, I’m totally speculating and I have no idea what the actual workflow of a radiologist involves...'

Speculation from a place of ignorance is suitable for bar-side musings, not an article that wants us to take it seriously.

littlestymaar

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45807542 (two weeks ago: 134 points, 184 comments)

josefritzishere

The basic premise here is that productivity growth in one sector, increaes wages in other sectors. But we already know that productivity and wage growth are increasingly disconnected. Thsi si not to say the affect doesnt exist but that it must therefore be small or limited in scope. https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/