Oops! McKinsey Explains Construction Industry’s Failure To Automate: “Due In Part To Reliance On Unskilled Workers” | VDARE - premier news outlet for patriotic immigration reform

Oops! McKinsey Explains Construction Industry’s Failure To Automate: “Due In Part To Reliance On Unskilled Workers” | VDARE - premier news outlet for patriotic immigration reform:
"From a Wall Street Journal article about how we need more immigration:
Productivity in [U.S.] construction has contracted at a 1% annual rate since 1995, according to a study by McKinsey Global Institute, the research arm of McKinsey & Co., due in part to reliance on unskilled workers and in part to government red tape.
Joel Shine, chief executive of builder Woodside Homes Inc., visited Kyoto, Japan, to see how firms there use automation in home construction. 
He thinks it would take at least a decade for the innovations to become mainstream in the U.S., in part because they would require building-code changes."