If our agriculture weren’t so good we wouldn’t be so fat and our health care cost might but not be so high. On that note, I wonder what the Iraqis eat. The Iraqi people we see on TV are pretty chubby for a country at war.
Pretty much all industries in the America economy have undergone great changes. Houses, however are still built the same way they were 50 year ago. If we have better technology (standardization, manufacturing, assembly, etc..) then housing prices could be held in check.