materials used to be more expensive than labor.
now labor is much more expensive than materials.
so everything's slapped together shittily.
the shitty houses started after WWII when houses needed to be slapped together quickly because of the population boom. same with the recent boom, you couldn't build houses fast enough.
you can still find/make houses of excellent quality, just get ready to pony up big bucks. also, today's average stay in a house is just over 5 years so even when someone builds a house for themselves they just have it last long enough til they get the fuck out, whereas before it was meant for generations to live in it.
protein, carbohydrates. now this thread is bodybuilding related.