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

Dwarkesh Podcast

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The Victorian Style of House

The Victorian style of house basically came about because of mass production methods which made like really or they would decorations to you know cheaply. I think part of it is that and this is more broadly applicable it's actually kind of a hassle to have all this like ornamentation all over your house or whatever. On the inside it's just lots and lots of stuff to like dust and keep clean or whatever which again comes back to cost disease if you have servants to do that for you. If you don't have servants it's you it creates a lot of extra work for you um same on the exterior but then also there is the issue that in general you want your building to like shed water and you

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