BRILLIANTLY PUT.
"WHAT'S THE MESSAGE OF WORKING IN A CUBE IN A ROOM WITH A SYNTHETIC DROP CEILING AND DRY WALL ON THE WALLS IN FLUORESCENT LIGHTING AHEAD OF YOU AND NO PRIVACY AT ALL? WHAT'S THE MESSAGE?"
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He's pretty out there but... he has a point on this one for sure. The "open office floor plan" doesn't breed collaboration and creativity.. it stifles it. All that does is causes your workers to spend hundreds of dollars on noise cancelling headphones so they can have some means of privacy so they can do their job.
It's also one of the primary reasons so many are fighting to keep remote work a thing post COVID.
there is beauty in the flexibility drop ceilings provide.
Couldn’t agree more.
he gets it! love this, thx for sharing
As far as I’m concerned architecture peaked when we stopped using animal manure to construct walls.
If you're out to create a beautiful world, the manner in which you make it must be aimed at such, and that has to bleed into the architecture. The fact that modern office spaces are far from beautiful with rare exception is indicative of the motivations of those who had them built.
Incredible that Cuomo managed to have a more punchanle face than Tucker 
Thi guy is a Bitcoiner
BRILLIANTLY PUT.
"WHAT'S THE MESSAGE OF WORKING IN A CUBE IN A ROOM WITH A SYNTHETIC DROP CEILING AND DRY WALL ON THE WALLS IN FLUORESCENT LIGHTING AHEAD OF YOU AND NO PRIVACY AT ALL? WHAT'S THE MESSAGE?"
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Next speaker for Bitcoin Urbanism series, @Tuur Demeestr ?
Beautiful take
BRILLIANTLY PUT.
"WHAT'S THE MESSAGE OF WORKING IN A CUBE IN A ROOM WITH A SYNTHETIC DROP CEILING AND DRY WALL ON THE WALLS IN FLUORESCENT LIGHTING AHEAD OF YOU AND NO PRIVACY AT ALL? WHAT'S THE MESSAGE?"
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The full interview was really good too.
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This is an overbearing opinion. He's blending specific implementations based on corporate greed with multiple design styles that 1. Are not the same 2. Do not buy themselves opress.
If you had a clean Scandinavian minimalist design that was very abstracted/far from handmade/craft, and every person had an a decent sized personal office that closed (with blinds). People would not feel oppressed. They would decorate with bits if themselves or some people would keep it clear because they prefer clean visuals without distraction. Also you can plug in a fucking incandescent lamp for other lighting while still having the same design. A lot of people like working in light cose to daylight in kelvin. Not me but I know plenty.
This is just like someone thinking, oh throwing the baseball fast is better, so shooting it out of a potato gun is better for the game of baseball. He's just running with it far beyond logic. And he's forgetting that handmade can be just as oppressive with propaganda and forcing a strong specific style on people to say think and be this way or else.
You people thrive on oversimplified sensationalism.
I don’t want to go into oppression aspect of his argument, bc I think he is slightly oversimplifying , but I totally agree on a point that everything that is produced by society in a given point of history, also in terms of esthetic value, is a representation of society’s spirit. Also he uses this term postmodern architecture - not good - bc it literally can mean everything and therefore means nothing specifically. Ppl usually use term postmodern when they don’t know how to precisely define an object of art produced after 1950’s . Intuitively I know what type of modern architecture he is referring to , but 20-21 centuries produced a lot of amazing arch objects -this is just an undeniable fact. But altogether he brings up an important topic. Ugliness or lack of exposure to beauty in every aspect of our everyday life is not just an unfortunate circumstance , it corrupts and brings down human spirit. Beauty (understanding of harmony and proportions in everything) should be a default feature not an accidental and optional side effect.
sorry for typos. I got used to swipe typing before it started to suck more and more the last years. I need to just type like normal or double check before hitting ok, but I just don't care as often as I should, considering that it's inconsiderate. That being said I'm a big supporter of edit with visible history.
Not only are cube farms bland and depressing, they are actively detrimental to productivity.
Since we're on the subject, I just want to point out how stupid 'open plan living' is. I don't wan't to hear what's going on in the kitchen or living room at all times. I don't want my dirty dishes or what I'm watching on TV visible from the front door. I don't want to be able to smell the garbage in the fucking dining room. There is a word for an entire family living in one room: poverty.
Smashed it - inflation makes it very diff to embark upon generational projects. #bitcoin fixes this
Liking this guy more and more
Ancient and Classical societies may not have been technologically advanced, but they were FAR more spiritually advanced
Western Civilization is dying because they’re turning their backs on what made them great
Being allowed opinions no matter who agrees
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He's absolutely right on this one.
America goes out of its way to destroy its beautiful buildings 😭
The weak are meat, and the strong do eat.
Oof. So primal.
Holy fuck.
Be the drop on the ocean. Whoa
Research architecture of past human civilization.
Visit some of the monuments around JUST the USA. They will move you - send chills up your spin. Why did your ansestors build these things? How? Why would they risk their lives to carve Presidents into the side of a mountain?
Answer these questions - and you will get a new lease on why you are alive.
Tucker is so right!
The message is "There are only a few who own the means of production and this is how and where they expect you to serve them. Don't try to run, they've already bought the government. You can't vote them out, you're powerless. And if you try to overthrow this government they've already pre-purchased the next one."
EAT THE RICH.
and they were technologically advanced
i mean…that's just a tent
or just slow down and breathe when your chords have been strum lol
🟥 red flag for the "you people" you let slip 🤣
also it's nostr, nobody cares about typos
The posture of the two men tells you a lot. Could be the way it is shot, but one slouches while the other is poised.
I agree with him here on this.
Perspective😉
YES
"When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for; and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say, as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, “See! This our father did for us.”
From The Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin
lol
I really like this guy
Public schools come to mind
It’s funny how my “view” of Tucker Carlson has altered over time
The more I’ve seen him speak the more I’ve liked what I hear
He’s thinking on a deeper level, with thorough research, than I ever realised
Largely this has been a reflection of me weaning off corporate media
Which i didn’t even realise was hugely influencing my “opinion”
(lol that I even though it was an opinion of my own!)
So we should leave #Bitcoin, I mean it's CIA made.
Not any more. Think of every single building built nowadays. 99% are peaces of crap.
Same here. Though he does ramble incoherent, uninformed nonsense about half of the time. But I learned not to blend out the good insights
I brag that within 4 years of my career, I was working in a "top floor corner office"
...it was a 2 story building 🤣 But the view was nice.
Fredo doesn’t have the intellectual capacity to participate in this conversation.
That environment can give you a brain cloud.
One of the most enlightening comments I’ve ever heard from Tucker. Moving.
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