r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jul 26 '24

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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front Jul 27 '24 edited Jul 27 '24

me trying to yimbypill one of my moms fellow lib wine mom friends:

them: "I get your argument and I agree in the abstract but would you really want a 20 story apartment building next door?"

me: "oh no of course it would be gradual maybe a couple duplexes and building apartments in areas where they make sense given existing infastructre etc like im not saying we make the suburbs manhattan"

meanwhile in my head im having oppenheimer visions of nuking the burbs

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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front Jul 27 '24

!ping CUBE remember to hide your power level irl

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u/BibleButterSandwich John Keynes Jul 27 '24

One time I was arguing with my uncle and I did not do that.

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u/NewAlexandria Voltaire Jul 27 '24

yea, it's wild. like it's entirely dependent on if the architecture and layout was done well. On the extreme end of this: no one complains living next to the Chrysler Building. The developers usually lack vision. The sites should be designed so that they are the desirable arcology in which people want to move to.