The chart also shows need vs. want. There are more opportunities to sell TVs than there is to sell health care. Nobody is putting an organ transplant on their Christmas wishlist if they don't need one. But that latest iPhone? Sure, slap that on there!
There's also the compulsion that highly trained professionals have to correct false information out of a sense of pride or ego. It helps to combat misinformation when you have a fair number of "ummm, ACKSHULY"'s in your profession.
You're sacrificing the speed and low level nature of Rust though. If performance is not critical why would one choose Rust in the first place? It's neat, but I don't see any need or use case for this.
I like the idea of business card sized pieces of useful or potentially useful code. However, it's not useful for much beyond putting it on a business card.
Open a terminal on linux and type `sudo rm -rf /`. Make sure you only use really important computers with hard to restore data. It works better that way.
The catalog price of the home is just for the materials, though, isn't it? It's not taking into account real estate, legal, administrative, or labor costs. Those are probably what's driving housing cost more than anything these days. I imagine you could get just the materials necessary to build the Classic home for around that much.