Gyprock

Even though, in the capitalist system, I made money, I don't really believe in it. I still believe, as I did in high school, in some form of communism. A society that primarily worries about money is a dysfunctional society. All people need is decent health care, decent housing, decent transportation, decent education, decent food, decent whatever, etc. We don't need extravagance. Where I live, a house typically costs a million dollars or more. Why does it cost so much, here on grey-pavement parking-lot wasteland, the Flat Mountain, Lulu Island? The houses aren't even reinforced concrete structures as in Asia, but flimsy gyprock, wood, etc. Lulu Island isn't as if a suburb of Barcelona or something posh and cultural. Why do we have to worry about money?

Some high quality white or variously tinted fine-grained gyprocks, usually referred to as alabaster, were used as interior facing stones and for small statues and carved decorative objects found in Egyptian pyramids

The world distribution of gyprock outcrops and the solubility of gypsum restrict the extensive occurrence of gypsic soils to the dry regions

Cinder blocks were more durable, however, and soon gypsum was redirected for “gyprock” drywall, a wallboard...