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> In the 1930s, the Empire State Building—the tallest in the world at the time—took a little more than 13 months to build. It cost at least 5 lives from easily
by janice1999 2y ago
> In the 1930s, the Empire State Building—the tallest in the world at the time—took a little more than 13 months to build.
It cost at least 5 lives from easily preventable accidents and is filled with asbestos (which likely killed many many more from lung cancer). is this the state people want to return to?
- whoknowsidont 2y ago>is this the state people want to return to? Sadly, some of them do. Some of them are even in government and their whole aim is to unravel all the standards and protections we've built up for good reason.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> cost at least 5 lives from easily preventable accidents and is filled with asbestos (which likely killed many many more from lung cancer). is this the state people want to return to? There is a lot of middle ground between these extremes [1]. Manhattan’s current zoning rules, for example, almost require luxury housing only. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/19/upshot/forty-percent-of-manhattans-buildings-could-not-be-built-today.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/19/upshot/forty-...