This is a lathe-and-plaster wall from before drywall was common, it's actually strong af

Why do Japanese make theirs out of paper? Because it's lightweight and cheap.

Because we are very cheap and superficial.

Cheap in the sense of 'unwilling to spend more money on things where quality really matters.'

I... I'm not even joking, that's why, its true in both a pithy and literal sense, if you look into the economics / industry standards of why this happens.

So, sooo many houses that got built in like the last five years, that every idiot bought thinking home prices would go up forever?

They're rush jobs, hack jobs, absolutely literally full of holes and problems, start falling apart... well it used to be 'the moment you walk in', but now nobody is even walking in to them, and some are literally falling apart, even collapsing, before they are bought.

Absolutely hilarious that a decade or so ago, every American I knew was laughing at Chinese 'Tofu Dregs'.

Building inspectors, realtors, gov agencies who are supoosed to be regulating this, the whole system, its massively, wildly corrupt and broken, you can find a few honest building inspectors on tiktok or youtube who just document how poorly built so many of these new homes are, when they're called in to double check some other corrupt building inspector's work.

Its a massive problem, yet another entire element of the US society / economy where massive corruption and fraud is so normalized that I won't be surprised if some other USAsian shows up here to tell me how its fine, its not that bad.