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> The Empire State Building was famously built in a year. Nowadays the most utilitarian housing project takes longer. This is true, but usually fewer people di
by lexicality 19d ago
> The Empire State Building was famously built in a year. Nowadays the most utilitarian housing project takes longer.
This is true, but usually fewer people die in the construction of those utilitarian housing projects
- treis 19d agoSpeed of construction is also not the same as efficiency.
- underlipton 18d agoYou're not counting the people who die of homelessness, or of depression because they seem stuck in a situation where they'll never have reliable housing, or in a car accident on their too-long commute, or of a heart attack because of years of stress related to rising rents, or... Justice delayed is justice denied, and housing that takes years to build because of stupid NIMBY bullsh*t is just an indirect way for the haves to tell the rest of us to kys.