Construction in the US is highly mechanized, the vast majority of laborers have been replaced by machinery.

With men operating that machinery.

Are you saying the fortune 500 are bad at business?

A. Bank caused the financial crisis of 2008

B. Are you saying top banks are bad at banking?

That's the convenient myth to think banks caused crisis. Money printing and credit rates lowering by government caused this. Free money? Sure, why not. Please watch princes of yen documentary where they speak about "credit window guidance" conducted by Japanese national bank for more than decades

oh so typical

literal fraud by banks and security rating agencies was directly responsible for the crisis. They defrauded their customers and each other.

Thats why they were called subprime loans.

I don't deny frauds in credit agencies. However, somebody was buying banks' CDOs? Who, ancient aliens? No, they weren't called surprime because credit agencies cheated on their rating, they were called so because they were inherently risky more than a normal mortgage ( so called ninja loans, no income, no job ). That's the people were buying this shit with the all time low rate loans. Human greed huh? That's less convenient than blaming banks for all the evil in this world