>>1517072look at the typical american landscape. temporary strip malls thrown up in a trendy area, big box stores in the middle of nowhere surrounded by a giant parking lot, suburbs a 3 hour drive from the closest job. are they gonna still be there in 100 years?
when a european builds a pub he builds it and it's still there 500 years later. is megawalshart #34804 off the highway interchange between farming bumfuck nowhere and methshack village going to be there in 500 years? is the radioshack outside suburb #864 2 hours outside vegas going to be there in 500 years?
it takes resources to build and maintain stuff and americans only focus on the upfront price, not the long term payout and utlity of it. it might be cheap to throw together a mcshits on a lousy strip of highway today, but will people in 500 years still be using that building? no, it won't last even 20 years before falling apart. so it's legtimate to say 100% of american construction is wasted effort, wasted resources, wasted funding, and a waste of decent land. it's absolutely thoughtless. if a household was run the way the nation is, it would be broke within 5 years.
Here's a picture of somewhere near where I'm from. i have never seen a single pedestrian anywhere on this road. it's a big divided highway lined with junky useless businesses, half of them always out of business. it's a stripmall the size of an entire roadway. a slummy, ugly, blighted, unpleasant area no one even wants to be in. that's what we spend our resources building in america, a slum of temporary construction trash. what a palace, we can stand on a mountain of garbage extending coast to coast. we took a beautiful continent and turned it into a trash heap of boarded up taco bells and empty parking lots.
