How much do construction costs matter to the price of housing?

Re:How much do construction costs matter to the price of hou... by ghaff on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @04:28PM (#30365961)

I expect that most "bakers" in the US today work for grocery chains (or maybe for manufacturers of packaged bread and pastry products--not sure how precisely the category is defined). They're probably mostly not working for artisan specialty bakeries although I wouldn't be shocked if people at those places weren't exactly raking it in either.

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Re:How much do construction costs matter to the price of hou... by chrisseaton on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @04:29PM (#30365976)

I don't think those large industrial bakeries really have 'bakers'? They have automation engineers, food scientists, mechanics.

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Re:How much do construction costs matter to the price of hou... by vkou on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @06:24PM (#30367264)

No, those people are the specialists that come in and set things up, or design and build the machinery that gets set up.

The day-to-day work is done by bakers, and much of it is not automated.

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Re:How much do construction costs matter to the price of hou... by OJFord on Thursday February 17, 2022 @06:49AM (#30372094)

It's a factory job though, their employer 'competes' for them with the other nearby factories, not the nearby independent bakeries.

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Re:How much do construction costs matter to the price of hou... by ghaff on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @04:37PM (#30366081)

As I say. I don't know who is counted. In any case, I certainly imagine grocery chains that bake on-premise have "bakers" and there are more of them in that type of job than working in high-end artisan bakeries.

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Re:How much do construction costs matter to the price of hou... by datadawg on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @04:59PM (#30366347)

Just wanted to say I've enjoyed this HN rabbithole gold, where we've gone from talking about increasing house costs to discussing the role of bakers in modern day industrial bakeries :)

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