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Brian Potter - Future of Construction, Ugly Modernism, & Environmental Review

Dwarkesh Podcast

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Is This a New Trend in Men's Clothing?

I think again it comes back to a little bit about like a question of like aesthetic style and just like do people like want a lot of ornamentation and you know fundamental attractiveness. then this is really a revealed preference about the people who are actually renting or buying these properties that like people so actually people who are living there actually don't want this kind of mature design maybe. I disagree with the premise if you're talking about some elite counter-signaling signaling thing because why are things ugly in general right?

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