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Believe it or not, there are entire research labs dedicated to just construction optimization. There’s a lot of PhDs actively working on these problems, but I guess they aren’t very smart or they’d be in software :-)

/s, obviously. And directed at the OP, not yours

John needs to watch YouTube to learn how to use a framing square to layout his stair stringers and how to pack wood shavings into a screw hole to reset it.

I have been in the military, I know very well how different skills correlate with intelligence since the military relies heavily on that. Removing the top 50% would have a huge effect, and that is exactly what we did in manual labour.

I am not claiming that it does not have an effect, I am contending that this assertion:

> But today we have ensured that basically no smart people are left

is wrong.