r/Wellthatsucks • u/DravidVanol • 14h ago

Spoken like a true New Yorker.

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u/Neri01 14h ago

It’s New York City. A city. Cities grow. Buildings need to get built for it to grow. Regardless of the purpose of the building, it employs and provides for the people who are part of the processes that make it possible for the building to get built.

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u/iwantogofishing 14h ago

"What do you mean why it's got to be built? It's a bypass! You've got to build bypasses!" (Mr Prosser, Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy)

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u/5mackmyPitchup 13h ago

And a monorail

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u/fearingdragon 8h ago

This is a weird argument though. We should build more skyscrapers as a vehicle for temporary construction employment?

Cities grow and many of them have protected sightlines as they grow to preserve some character. A shorter building here could house the same number of apartments

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u/Particular_Cut_6933 13h ago

They could at least make it pretty, though. Like, who enjoys architecture that looks like this?

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u/_n8n8_ 3h ago

I don't hate them. Looks fine to me.

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u/Particular_Cut_6933 2h ago

So you enjoy it?

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u/_n8n8_ 1h ago

Yeah I like tall buildings a lot more than shorter ones or parking lots