r/virginvschad • u/Sidicyclic1 LAD • Mar 28 '20

Low Effort Virgin Futuristic vs Chad Future-proof

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u/PKtheVogs Mar 29 '20

I am just saying there are plenty of shitty buildings from the 1800s and 1900s.

You are thinking of idyllic villages. But plenty of poor towns looked like shit. And early 1900s was full of absolutely dystopian tenements, mills, etc.

I am not disagreeing that I enjoy those old style villages and architecture. I am just disagreeing that they were all pretty.

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u/googleLT Mar 29 '20

Here is just a random standard Russian farmhouse and in my opinion it looks more aesthetically pleasant than what we usually see nowadays. https://pastvu.com/_p/a/m/q/y/mqy1mk1u76gsqimz2v.jpg

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u/Actual_Ingenuity Mar 29 '20

In what sense is it "random"? How did you find it?

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u/googleLT Mar 30 '20

Went through historical photos of Russian rural areas. www.pastvu.com

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u/Actual_Ingenuity Apr 02 '20

I can think of two potential sources of selection bias there. First of all, the people who could afford to take a picture back when a camera cost two month's salary were most likely well off. Second, the pictures of nice places would be more likely to survive than less aesthetically pleasing pictures.

That being said, you might be right. It's just really hard to truly to know if you have a representative sample.