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I thought I’d be less suicidal at this age tbqh

Generally, high-quality pieces would have been made by artisans (and thus usually custom), not factory-made. The high demand meant that the skills to make these pieces were more commonly pursued by woodworkers, thus making a larger labor pool (and so, cheaper labor), but the technology available and higher price of resources means that it would have required more expense in the form of materials and more man-hours to create the product.

A friend of mine once had me pose with two of these when on a roadtrip (we had never seen them before).

So he could say I had “azburgers”

do people know you can pay for custom pieces

Like, if a door knocker is that important to you, like an upper-middle class 19th century homeowner, you can just… pay 500$ or so for a nice one. I promise you that the 19th century homeowner paid much more for their’s, adjusted for inflation.

I’d double-check your local traffic regulations; there are places where you can get written a ticket for running a yellow light.

Holy shit, then what’s the difference in those places between a red light and a yellow light?

You had me at “evil”

I know this is the shitposting Lemmy and historical accuracy isn’t the goal here … But you don’t honestly think they put plantations in infertile places and used slaves for no reason right? They made a shit ton of money

Overall, you’re right, but I’d like to point out two caveats here:

1. Southern plantation farming was incredibly inefficient and utterly ruined the land it was practiced on - something that was recognized (and criticized) as early as George Washington. So they did build their plantations in fertile areas, but exhausted the soil and did very little to let it recover until George Washington Carver (unrelated) started spreading crop rotations around ~1900.

2. The aristocrats made a shitton of money relative to the average person, but they were much, much poorer - both individually and as a society - than the industrialized North. Northern farming, even, was much more efficient - but the Southern aristocracy perpetuated their system because control was more important than money. In the slavery (and sharecropping) system, the plantation class effectively ruled little fiefs of dependent ‘free’ farmers and unfree (legally or practically) Black labor, able to exercise wide-reaching control not just economically, but also socially, culturally, and politically. Given the choice between more luxury or more power, they chose more power, and used that power to perpetuate their sickened systems.

Like a dragon atop a hoard, I just lounge atop of them

Why do you say that?

Shit, do you know how much human production per-capita has increased in the last 200 years alone?

Why is a good life for the 99% such a pipe dream to your eyes?

Explanation: What we were generally recognize as the physical form of a book in the modern day is formally called a codex - an invention of the 1st century AD Roman Empire that made reading and book storage much more efficient. Instead of a single sheet of paper that needed to be unraveled, smaller sheets were bound to a spine and protected with covers, progressing through the writing by turning the pages.

Stop living in the past! Embrace the F U T U R E!

Gramercy, how archaic!

He could be you! He could be me! He could even be-!

… cat is a member of the People Eating Leopards’ Faces Party?

lmao, funny enough, after someone insisted on finding the address, I actually came across some floor plans in the process.

https://huanggang.newhouse.fang.com/loupan/2620196942/photo/d_house_394820.htm

After considerable struggle, since listing all addresses in fucking China is not high on the list of Anglophone internet service priorities, and as if to fucking emphasize this, the entire fucking Google Map of Huanggang being incredibly off-center, and most locations not having any fucking address listed, I spent far too fucking much of my time to cross-reference sources, searching in fucking Chinese (which I do not speak), and locate the exact position of the complex through Baidu’s map service as Juran Home Vertical Forest City Complex, No. 88 Shengli Street, Huangzhou District, Huanggang City, Hubei Province.

There’s even a photo gallery of mundane, non-gorgeous angles

Is that enough to quell your arbitrary skepticism despite similar projects being already established as extant and multiple sources being provided?

You sure? It seems legitimate, as seen by the link and the architect’s own page, and it seems to be similar to the architect’s other projects

Have you met human beings?

Damn bro, the box ain’t gonna diss its own gameplay loop 😭

And if it turns out they don’t, oh well! You can just say it’s not your fault, because you just stood by and didn’t take responsibility for anything!

It operates on the same principle as the invisible hand of the market. The assertion is not (or should not be) meant as a total, all-circumstances-covered principle, but that the fundamental functioning of people does not require ordering to be viable.

Just Marx, I’m a poser 😔