• ursakhiin@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Car culture is more of a symptom than the cause of most of the problems.

    Cars aren’t the cause of houses being identical, roads being identical, etc. A culture of trying to battle for the cheapest implementation of everything is the cause. We want the most bang for our buck for everything. You get that by lowering costs using pre fabricated parts and reusing safe ideas.

    And comparing the “identity” of cultures that existed for thousands of years to that of the Americas is arguing in bad faith on the topic. The push to drive things to be cheaper has been priority for a much greater portion of our history.

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      1 year ago

      Homogenization of culture isn’t a lot of “bang for my buck.” In fact I’d say it’s actually extracting a lot of value out of culture for the sake of someone else’s profit. In a word commodification.

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        It is, though.

        You get all the functionality for the lower price tag. That’s not saying it’s a good thing. That’s the mentality that leads to it, though.

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      Yep! We can see in some archaeological sites where pottery and plates went from a luxury to a mass produced commodity. Its fucking awesome, if you ask me. I wouldnt mind more, not less similarities. Once it looks like commie blocks we can stop and add some paint or a facade.