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Alcohol today!!

February 2nd
"Today's alcohol!!"
I can't drink alcohol so I wanted to use an analogy with alcohol...
I have said this many times before, but why is it that the housing industry is filled with so many builders who boast that they meet the standards?
That's what I'm talking about.
Meets next-generation energy-saving standards, G2 standards, ZEH, long-term quality housing, and more...
In the world of alcohol, I remember a long time ago, when I was a child, there were things like special grade and first grade sake made by major manufacturers in accordance with standards set by the government, and second grade sake made by responsible local sake breweries.
I believe that system is no longer in place, but if, for example, Dassai or other well-known sake breweries were to claim that they met the national standards, people would probably think "what on earth happened??"
There was a passage in Oishinbo a long time ago that said, "The very act of calling it 'junmai sake' is truly embarrassing. This term is used because there is sake made with industrial ethanol. If you consider that there is such thing as pure grape wine in France, you can imagine how strange it is."
In short, if the brewer has a certain passion, then the sake will be made with a particular attention to detail, with the individuality of "I want to make the best taste I can" or "I want to make the best taste possible within a budget of 2000 yen." And then, people who are impressed by the individuality and depth of the brewer will fall in love with the sake...
The same low-level methods of self-promotion that died out 1 years ago in the alcohol industry, which has a price range roughly 20/11th of that of housing, are still rampant in the housing industry... It's fine in the food and drink world too, but do you really want to go to a ramen shop that loudly proclaims that it "passed the XNUMX ramen standards!!"...
I would like housing practitioners to think calmly and objectively.

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