Unpopular opinion: these cathedrals represent a horrifying waste of human capital, time, and talent. The cathedrals consumed a significant level of GDP during t

Unpopular opinion: these cathedrals represent a horrifying waste of human capital, time, and talent. The cathedrals consumed a significant level of GDP during the times they were built. Imagine if those funds had been put into science instead - we may have seen the Renaissance in the 1300's. Every human life would have been qualitatively better.