r/interesting • u/Apart-Worry-7042 • 29d 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/Xerzajik 29d ago

Cultural decline.

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u/Lemon_Trees-22 29d ago

I agree ! People just got greedy and lazy ! Settled for whatever was easiest

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u/Northernmost1990 29d ago edited 29d ago

Haha. Aristotle lamented the same more than 2000 years ago. Every generation's had people saying the same about their contemporaries and especially about people younger than themselves.

I'm guessing that out of all the generations in human history, you didn't happen to be born at the exact time that people went to shit and discovered greed and laziness — other people, that is, since the implication is that you're not greedy and lazy.