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Re:How much do construction costs matter to the price of hou... by Hemospectrum on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @03:23PM (#30365196)
You could approach this idea from the opposite direction: Put all essential jobs under military jurisdiction. There's real-world precedent illustrating some of the ways this would (and wouldn't) work.
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Re:How much do construction costs matter to the price of hou... by someguydave on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @03:29PM (#30365254)
>Put all essential jobs under military jurisdiction.

Under that scenario the relative fairness of paying for jobs to be done would be replaced with the relative unfairness of being friends with the right people in the "plumber corps" to fix your toliet.

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Re:How much do construction costs matter to the price of hou... by xboxnolifes on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @03:37PM (#30365355)
If there is some sort of national mandatory essential service, that will happen regardless of what organization it falls under if it is ran poorly.
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Re:How much do construction costs matter to the price of hou... by someguydave on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @05:28PM (#30366683)
yes, it will happen in all cases where government bureaucrats decide who gets what resource
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