A very big if…not particularly thrilled about farming out my preferences and desires to a third party. There’s no accounting for taste. I spent decades as a contractor, part of my job was to keep up with technological advances in the field, picking ones that improved productivity or quality in the products I produced (bathrooms, kitchens, decks, additions, etc.). I find it hard to believe that a centralized committee could have decided better than I could which tools, fasteners, materials better suited my needs, my client’s needs. Further I don’t see the mechanism such a centralized decision process would use to fund the innovation that steadily improved the products available to me and thus to my clients.

The collective knowledge and wisdom of the users, the contractors and tradesmen like me just swamps that of a small group of “experts” necessarily divorced from the field in their role as committee members. Can’t see the equivalent pairing between innovators hoping to capture my supply dollar and the constant field testing of millions of trades people in the field.