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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2021

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Chris Arnade  🐢

      1/ I interact w the 23 year old "trad" right a lot, and they're constantly crapping on modern architecture, suburbs, etc. yes, yes, small stone buildings on alleys are charming ... but prices and selection are garbage. Strip malls are affordable and give people options.https://twitter.com/Chris_arnade/status/1447902887775031296 …

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      Chris Arnade  🐢 @Chris_arnade
      Them damn midwesterners and their, uh, array of stores catering to the lived reality of large & diverse resident immigrant groups pic.twitter.com/Lb2VFSrheg
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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2021

      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. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2021

      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. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2021

      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. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2021

      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. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2021

      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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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2021

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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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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs @MorlockP
      1/ I interact w the 23 year old "trad" right a lot, and they're constantly crapping on modern architecture, suburbs, etc. yes, yes, small stone buildings on alleys are charming ... but prices and selection are garbage. Strip malls are affordable and give people options. https://twitter.com/Chris_arnade/status/1447902887775031296 …
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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2021

          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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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2021

          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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        4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Nathaniel Fitch

          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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          Nathaniel Fitch @TFB_Nathaniel_F
          Replying to @MorlockP
          A point I think the "trads" have is that a lot of these suburban buildings are not designed to last very long. Maybe eternal construction is too expensive sure, but buildings with a 30 year lifespan (which may not even last that long) seem excessively short-lived to me.
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        5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2021

          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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        6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Demiurgent 🥃 🖤

          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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          Demiurgent 🥃 🖤 @tr0g
          Replying to @TFB_Nathaniel_F @MorlockP
          I have seen 100 year old shotgun shacks that were just fine. What determines longevity of a building, more than anything, is maintenance and upkeep. Your basic American stick framed house is close to being a ship of Theseus in this regard.
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        7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 12 Oct 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Nathaniel Fitch

          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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          Nathaniel Fitch @TFB_Nathaniel_F
          Replying to @MorlockP
          Deep connections to the past are not a bad thing. It is a comfort to see your son go the same places you went and do the same things you did, as you know. There are places in America in an almost constant state of bulldoze-and-rebuild. Some churn is good, but too much?
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        1. Mandy VeryRealInternetFriend‏ @pantinkins 12 Oct 2021
          Replying to @MorlockP

          They have a lot of ideas and understanding from books, idealistic thoughts handed to them from adults and professors. They just don't have experience yet.

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