"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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