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Re:I love the Victorian era. So I decided to live in it by dstyrb on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @08:30PM (#10195527)
“When cheap modern things in our lives inevitably broke, we replaced them with sturdy historic equivalents instead of more disposable modern trash.”

There it is, the inevitable disdain, the hallmark of the chronic hipster.

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Re:I love the Victorian era. So I decided to live in it by JorgeGT on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @09:07PM (#10195630)
The crucial difference is that cheap disposable modern trash can be afforded by almost everyone. The purchase of a single automobile was a village-wide social event when my grandfather was young. Same with a television when my father was young.
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