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When early tall buildings started to rise, you would find the most expensive lawyers and bankers in New York and London with offices on the ground floor, while
by newsbinator 5y ago
When early tall buildings started to rise, you would find the most expensive lawyers and bankers in New York and London with offices on the ground floor, while admin staff toiled away on higher floors, having to walk up and down those stairs all day to move paper and transmit messages.
With the invention of the elevator, that pyramid was inverted.
Whereas Wizards, as everybody knows, have never required elevators.
- PeterisP 5y agoIIRC it was similar in ancient Rome with their multistory insula residental buildings - the higher floors were cheaper, with smaller rooms and worse in all aspects.