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> The truth is that Americans are just a bit lazy. Seems like a bit of a stretch. Especially since your argument includes things like building architecture. I
by falcolas 6y ago
> The truth is that Americans are just a bit lazy.
Seems like a bit of a stretch. Especially since your argument includes things like building architecture.
It's more likely that it's less profitable to create such architecture, naturally discouraging the creating of walkable cities in the summer months.
It's worth remembering that unless it's required by code, it's usually not done when it comes to many professional builders.
- Jtsummers 6y agoSo not "lazy" but "cheap"?
- falcolas 6y agoYour average commuter has no input on city design or the minutiae of the cost/profit ratios involved in building the city. The blame should instead lay with those who incentivize profit over city improvement.
- ceilingcorner 6y agoThen it just means we are too lazy to care about anything other than profit. Subsequently we suffer for it.
- falcolas 6y agoAmerica largely identifies itself as a capitalist country. Our defeat of "communism" and its replacement with "capitalism" is something America is still quite proud of - even here on HN. Relevant to this problem (walkable cities and the motivations to or not to create them), capitalism and profit as a motivation for everything go pretty much hand-in-hand.
- ceilingcorner 6y agoCapitalism means the private ownership of capital, not the blind worship of profits.
- falcolas 6y agoWell, if I borrow from Wikipedia (and the definition is heavily attributed), it's more the private ownership of the means of production, and the operation of that means for profit. Blind worship, no. But profit is definitely bundled into the concept of capitalism. And corporations throughout America are definitely leaning into the "profit at any cost" and "shareholder value at any cost" mantras. EDIT: Disliking something doesn't make it go away, folks.