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Disrespectful to who? Large capital holders who create blight?

soumlaut2 3y ago
Pretend you like your job, your area, and your community for a moment - you come into work one day and you find out that someone had tagged your dumpster. Does it only degrade trash corp llc? Or you do you feel an effect? Does it echo outside your company, how do your neighbors perceive it? Someone drives past, that has no overlap all at with any of those factors.. they're gonna have an internal reaction too. I guess if someones a fan of burning society down you can make a pitch that there's some progress being made by someone spraying their tag handle on some symbol of capitalistic structures.. but I have a hard time seeing depth of meaning from an act that's usually ego-driven(tagging).
- mustacheemperor 3y ago
  But a dumpster is a complete and functional item. I think that's a key distinction. This is an incomplete high rise blighting the landscape until it's taken down. What if you like your job, your area, and a developer shows up one day and installs 2/3rds of a dumpster in the parking lot. There is a partially completed trash enclosure there, clearly unfinished, blighting the view from your office. If someone drives past, they're not going to get a positive impression whether it's painted or not. If someone paints the wreckage of the incomplete dumpster, how do you feel about it? It seems to me the disrespect here is really from the people who built a pile of garbage in your parking lot.
- MSFT_Edging 3y ago
  If I like my community and some large scale corporate developer came in, badly managed a project, and left a half finished building in the place where some useful buildings were once, I'd probably be pro-tagging it. That's the community in action, not some development firm who would mostly act as an extraction tool to siphon money out of the community once it was complete.
- NewJazz 3y ago
  If someone tags a dumpster I'll think less about it than I did reading this comment section. Seriously who cares? It is paint. Wash it off or paint over it if it bothers you.

Pretend you like your job, your area, and your community for a moment - you come into work one day and you find out that someone had tagged your dumpster. Does it only degrade trash corp llc? Or you do you feel an effect? Does it echo outside your company, how do your neighbors perceive it? Someone drives past, that has no overlap all at with any of those factors.. they're gonna have an internal reaction too. I guess if someones a fan of burning society down you can make a pitch that there's some progress being made by someone spraying their tag handle on some symbol of capitalistic structures.. but I have a hard time seeing depth of meaning from an act that's usually ego-driven(tagging).

mustacheemperor 3y ago
But a dumpster is a complete and functional item. I think that's a key distinction. This is an incomplete high rise blighting the landscape until it's taken down. What if you like your job, your area, and a developer shows up one day and installs 2/3rds of a dumpster in the parking lot. There is a partially completed trash enclosure there, clearly unfinished, blighting the view from your office. If someone drives past, they're not going to get a positive impression whether it's painted or not. If someone paints the wreckage of the incomplete dumpster, how do you feel about it? It seems to me the disrespect here is really from the people who built a pile of garbage in your parking lot.
MSFT_Edging 3y ago
If I like my community and some large scale corporate developer came in, badly managed a project, and left a half finished building in the place where some useful buildings were once, I'd probably be pro-tagging it. That's the community in action, not some development firm who would mostly act as an extraction tool to siphon money out of the community once it was complete.
NewJazz 3y ago
If someone tags a dumpster I'll think less about it than I did reading this comment section. Seriously who cares? It is paint. Wash it off or paint over it if it bothers you.