I went by the construction site today at about noon. The big Komatsu Excavator was there dealing with the concrete slab on which the house had been sitting. I had imagined that they would have to pulverize the slab by pounding it into pieces with the excavator. Not at all. The operator just put the teeth of the jaws under the edge of the concrete and lifted it and as he did it would break into large chunks that he would then pick up and load into the over sized dump truck. I was standing there watching for about 15 minutes and in that time he had pulled up and loaded about one fourth of the entire slab into the truck.
One man with a Buddha belly doing safely the work in one fourth of an hour that one hundred men with sledge hammers could probably not do in a day. Efficient Capital Investment = Productivity = Progress. Sorry all you Occupiers out there raging against the machine...reading this on your iPhones
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