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Re:How “One-Plus-Five” Is Shaping American Cities by linkmotif on Thursday December 13, 2018 @01:32PM (#18674740)
Haha I think the point is you can’t democratize luxury. That’s a shill, an oxymoron. What you get is literal vuglarity.
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Re:How “One-Plus-Five” Is Shaping American Cities by darkerside on Friday December 14, 2018 @05:35PM (#18685518)
That's an overload of the term luxury. Is air conditioning a luxury? Depends on what you mean by it.

What I mean by it in this case is, we are able to support economically many more people having mansions than we used to. The trade-off is they rightfully earn the prefix of Mc.

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Re:How “One-Plus-Five” Is Shaping American Cities by linkmotif on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @03:02PM (#18710012)
> we are able to support economically many more people having mansions than we used to

I don't think that's true... the environmental cost of supporting this is huge and already unsustainable. Air conditioning is a great example of this.

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