....I offer a diversion: Google suggested I watch this bit of real estate porn (not normally my scene, but I follow The All Knowing One's recommendations quite often.) It's a pretty new apartment in a very skinny and tall building in New York:
You know the biggest thing that kept crossing my mind while watching it? Those full length glass windows look so dirty. The top of the building is still under construction, oddly, so maybe they haven't got their glass cleaning system going yet; but if I moved into a $28 million (USD) apartment and I was looking through scummy glass windows/walls all the time, I would be annoyed.
Anyway, I still don't care for the idea of being high in the sky and only full length glass walls keeping me from the elements (and falling 43 floors to my death). The next time a sonic boom creating meteor passes over New York, I will feel vindicated.
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Its rubbish. Objectively its only really worth about one tenth the price. But this is the dysfunction of fractional reserve banking coupled with sending the oil money to New York and dovetailed with frequent raids on the treasury and Federal Reserve by rich parasites. These factors keep starving the regions of monetary base and sending it all back to the big New York banks. So while we have this structurally unsound monster, out in the districts we have main town centre with single story buildings. When even a small town ought to have big 3-5 storey buildings down all its main streets.
Steel and concrete are crap materials but the only materials that can be built this high. Its doubtful that the finance will be available to renovate these foolish buildings. But with the money for the one apartment you could put up a logistically sound 5 storey building in a small town. You could build whole 5 storey towns with the money spent on that one building. The small town designed right could be a wealth creator but the tall building is only there to house parasites.
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