2/ this is ESPECIALLY true for working class, married, family types. The rich and upper upper upper middle class types (a group that the trad right kids tend to hate for being bugmen and elitists) will do fine even when stripmalls are banned and prices climb by 70%
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3/ Joe Sixpack and his wife the hairdresser and their three kids (the "salt of the earth" that the trad right kids care so much about), though, will be MASSIVELY hit.
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4/ "well, that's just money. People don't really need a fifth car in the garage and a house full of plastic beeping garbage and TVs". true, I also dislike consumerist garbage ... but when you make STUFF more expensive, this means that folks either work more (less time w fam) >
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5/ or buy less stuff ...and not all of the stuff that they buy less of is stuff that you scorn. Working class people buy tools to repairs their homes and cars, they buy vacations, they buy little indulgences, they buy new beds and new clothes for their growing children.
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6/ "strip malls are terrible; ban them" reeks of inverse Le Corbusier - a totally intellectualized all-brain-no-lived-experience top-down totalitarianism that presumes to tell the little people (whom one has never actually met) how to live their lives.
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7/ revisiting the original thesis: I think that the trad kids being 23 actually has a lot to do with it - they don't REMEMBER life before Amazon and big box stores. They don't remember just not being able to find a kitchen implement or a pipe fitting >https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1447903872463351813 …
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8/ they don't remember driving to visit three different hardware stores, failing, tracking down a plumbing supply store in the yellow pages (that is open 7am to 3pm) and driving 10 miles to an industrial district in the middle of the day to stand in line at a counter >
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9/ and trying to buy a fitting from a surly guy who dislikes interacting w non professionals, and who only accepts cash (no returns) Strip malls, big box stores, and ecommerce create FREEDOM. Free hours, free days.
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10/ First, I doubt this ... but even if true, what of it? New generations arise, with new preferences. Why should we double the cost of a building to make it last for twice as long ...when we're not even sure people will want it.https://twitter.com/TFB_Nathaniel_F/status/1447905481469702145 …
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11/ Google tells me that the average cost of a new car is $38,500 right now. Would it be an actively good thing to make cars last twice as long...and to double the price, so cars cost $77,000 ?
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12/ This is my strong belief. 1) yes, maintenance is required and houses are immortal when maintained 2) I owned a Cape Code built c. 1946 and I did a lot of work on it. The tech was near identical to today, and it was in perfect shape inside the wallshttps://twitter.com/tr0g/status/1447910964368642063 …
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13/ I have no idea how much people value "their kid going to the same school they did" vs "it's easy to get food for my family". Since I don't know, I suggest we let those people decide, via market mechanisms.https://twitter.com/TFB_Nathaniel_F/status/1447911701085622275 …
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