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"to achieve global success", it's unfortunate that that is often the goal indeed. Globalization kills a lot, look at Khao San Road in Bangkok, in 20 years it c
by teekert 5y ago
"to achieve global success", it's unfortunate that that is often the goal indeed.
Globalization kills a lot, look at Khao San Road in Bangkok, in 20 years it changed from small street stalls to big global chains. And the great homogenization will continue. In the first Ringworld, this process is also described, transport booths (in a flash you walk to any destination on earth) made every city the same. The internet and cheap flights have already started this process.
Edit I also remember this being posted here once: "The same damn avocado toast" or something (can't find it anymore), about a traveler that got the same damn avocado toast everywhere he went.
- Mezzie 5y agoReminds me of this article: https://nymag.com/urbanist/article/the-unbearable-sameness-of-cities.html https://nymag.com/urbanist/article/the-unbearable-sameness-o.... Also this one: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/08/why-every-city-feels-same-now/615556/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/08/why-e.... This phenomenon is why I ended up moving back to my hometown of ~100k after living in a couple of different countries + several different regions of the US/different big cities. They're all the same after a while. I missed a place that was unabashedly itself.