Re:Automation is set to hit workers in developing countries ...
by dredmorbius on Thursday March 30, 2017 @03:59PM
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You could almost certainly go back only 200 - 300 years.
Hell, in France of the 1950s, the majority of homes outside Paris didn't have indoor plumbing.
(Consider, as a corrolary, that a major cause of building failure is moisture-induced rot: if you want to risk-mitigate your construction and reduce a major source of failure, you'll consolidate plumbing either outside the structure, or to a subsection of it which is particularly immune to rot.)
Hell, in France of the 1950s, the majority of homes outside Paris didn't have indoor plumbing.
(Consider, as a corrolary, that a major cause of building failure is moisture-induced rot: if you want to risk-mitigate your construction and reduce a major source of failure, you'll consolidate plumbing either outside the structure, or to a subsection of it which is particularly immune to rot.)