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+1 these looked great, I would have much rather lived in this than the triple with zero privacy I lived in during school.
by homefree 3y ago
+1 these looked great, I would have much rather lived in this than the triple with zero privacy I lived in during school.
- bmitc 3y agoI lived in my own room with a shared living room in a dorm room decades ago. And it had a window and opened to the outside. The point is that better designs exist, but people will defend Munger just because his design could be worse. I think my opinion and reaction is based upon his reaction. He rejected all criticism outright and refused to listen to anyone. It was his design, or he would take his money away.
- decafninja 3y agoBetter designs exist, but they are rare, often due to circumstances like costs. I too would have welcomed a private windowless dorm room versus having a forced roommate with no privacy. I specifically chose to commute an hour+ from my parents home because I couldn’t stand the lack of privacy offered by any of my school’s dorm options.
- homefree 3y agoI saw more of the opposite - people dismissing him because of identity politics and just because he's a billionaire. My impression was he had strict requirements because part of the design is about tradeoffs and cost and the reason this kind of thing takes forever and gets expensive is because of all of the arguing that happens during it. You end up with a design by committee and worse outcome. I'm skeptical of the 'better designs' not having these tradeoffs.
- qwytw 3y agoIt could be worse, sure. But those rooms (at least some of them) don't have any windows. Why would you build something like that?
- missedthecue 3y agoMy dorm room did not have windows. Honestly it would only be a problem if I never left it. But I was out and about every day to classes and friends and other typical university things