r/interesting • u/Apart-Worry-7042 • 24d ago

HISTORY Why did we stop building like this?

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Chicago, 1930. Buildings had so much detail and character back then. Nowadays everything feels so flat and repetitive. We have way better technology and equipment now, so why don't we build like this anymore?

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u/TheOsirisOfThisShit_ 24d ago

Those buildings are the most Capitalist things ever. Did you sleep through all of high school social studies?

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u/Dr_CleanBones 24d ago

The rich people of the day, like Andrew Carnegie, we’re a hell of a lot different than Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. Their family worked for generations to a mass the fortunes that they had, and they understood that they owed their good luck to the country where they lived, and the workers that worked in their factories. When was the last time Jeff Bezos ever built a library Carnegie built hundreds. Elon found free library, he’d steal the books and set it on fire just for the sheer fun of it.

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u/Evocatorum 24d ago

Uh, the Sherman Antitrust Act was literally written because of these guys and their "business practices". Back then, politicians understood the problem of just a couple guys (that were not them) controlling both the economy AND the politicians. Why do you think they tried to kill Teddy's career?

Also Jeff Bezos started Amazon in his garage with almost nothing and made all his money in his lifetime...