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@ Andrey Arapov
2025-05-18 10:39:15
Why We No Longer Build Beautiful Cities
What inflation did to architecture — and culture.
Ever wonder why European cities built in the 18th–19th century look like works of art,
but modern buildings are concrete-brick shoeboxes that block the sun and crumble in 60 years?
It’s simple: labor used to be valuable, and money preserved that value.
People could afford to build “for centuries,” because:
— money didn’t lose value every year,
— cutting corners wasn’t the meaning of life,
— and architecture expressed culture, not a developer’s Excel sheet.
Today?
— debased labor,
— endless inflation,
— skimpflation (cheaper materials),
— shrinkflation (less for the same price),
…have created a world where everything is temporary, cheap, and uniformly ugly.
When money loses value, so does quality. And beauty.
Because no one builds cathedrals out of straw when they know the roof will collapse tomorrow.
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