maya 🫐 on Nostr: "McMansions are built for people who have achieved some level of affluence, but who ...
"McMansions are built for people who have achieved some level of affluence, but who stubbornly retain a non-elite love of ornamentation. They inspire passionate contempt in many sophisticated critics, to whom they afford a rare opportunity to flex cultural power without looking as though one is being nasty to poor people."
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-beauty-of-concrete/ (you can't try to tell me mcmansions aren't ugly but this piece is really good)
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