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When I watched this TV show where real estate agents were selling massive houses to the rich and famous in Beverly Hills, expansive multi-million dollar homes,
by Synaesthesia 3y ago
When I watched this TV show where real estate agents were selling massive houses to the rich and famous in Beverly Hills, expansive multi-million dollar homes, I just though of all the concrete and materials used to build such homes (all of which emit CO2 when made) and the heating and cooling bills associated with that.
It's all unnecessary stuff, you don't need a collosal mansion, that's the sort of thing which contributes to these figures. Their extremely vapid, "luxurious" lives ... It's sad
- somedude895 3y agoThe lifestyle of the rich is a drop in the bucket and not what the article is about. Since when did HN get so envy-driven?
- lotsofpulp 3y agoNo one needs detached single family homes with garages and individual cars and vacations to the beach either. A family of 6 living in a single room could be thinking the same watching Home Improvement.
- ClumsyPilot 3y agoWaste is a well defined concept to most people - if you have several houses and sevrral cars that you cannot possibly use most of the year, thats a waste.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoAnd what are people doing in detached homes that they cannot be doing in dense multifamily housing? Space itself is a luxury (it has a knock on effect of increasing the distance everything within and around that space has to travel). I might define multiple unused houses as not being a waste just like someone with multiple unused bedrooms defines it as not being waste. A “spare” house and an “spare” bedroom. And vice versa.
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- tomp 3y agoNoone needs the internet, yet here you are posting on HN. Western/industrial human civilisation has long since surpassed most human needs and moved on to human wants. And that’s a good thing.