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Originally Posted by 2oh1
If that's correct, it's one hell of a scumbag maneuver. They created rich floors and poor floors, and they intentionally created a design that took windows away from the poor floors.
I wonder if they have a special elevator just for the poor floors, in order to keep the poor people out of view of the rich people. Hell, I'm surprised the elevators aren't strictly for the rich floors.
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I seem to recall from that famous get-together at Jimmy Maks that the architect Jeff Kovel made a remark about "capitalism" means pretty much this: the rich get views and more windows. I guess it's doubly ironic, then, that this building looks like it belongs in the old East Berlin. Of course, there's that Ayn Rand novel, too, where hero-architects stick it to the philistines in
The Fountainhead , which probably inspired any number of nerds in high school to become architects.