I'm concerned that we don't have much input into how things look, and I think that's bad for us and sad
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That we don't have enough input into defining "beauty" where we are the main affected parties is abt power
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You can sub beauty with any variable that people should control in proportion to their stake in it.
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One reason I am wary of your communitarianism is precisely that. Eg. HOAs dictating lawn aesthetics.
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A Pattern Language-style aesthetics is the opposite of that, each thing fitted to its place and use, not cookie cutter
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all suburban subdivisions mostly look the same - no local expression at all, no place for beauty
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Which is fine if residents collectively chose it without coercion and can sell and leave if they want
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I don't think that people live in ugly places because they like it that way, but because beautiful options don't exist
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Or because they allocate whatever economic means they have as best they can. Beauty comes at a cost.
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indeed - it's the first thing that gets efficiencied out of existence, and we all suffer - ugliness externalities

