[AngryData]

Im not so sure, people probably thought the same thing about power tools and nail guns. They allow the house to be built much faster, but wages dropped, work quality went down, and the value of having skills and experience was severly diminished.

Plastering walls use to be a great paying skilled job, and when drywall came out and everyone thought that meant less time making boring flat walls and more time doing fancy plasterwork in corners and edges. But the fancy corners and edgings disappeared, it took too long compared to the rest of the wall plane and people who did it still wanted decent pay for maintaining or building that skill. And even for plain drywallers, productuon demands went up while wages stagnated. And now these days most drywall is seamed like trash and most guys doing it are desperate and/or addicts. The only thing that earns money now in drywall and plaster is meth head production speed and a lack of complaints about the work.