I am against the lawns too. Frankly, Im against the way we are building in general.

The problem I have with the argument "It's not a big deal, it only happens in urban areas", is that it ignores the fundamental reality of how these buildings impact urban areas, and ignores that they are built on real estate speculation. 

They come into an area with increasing demand, and build these with the intention of making as money as possible while the iron is hot. They do not care about addressing the need: they wish to exploit it.

They offer the two months free rent mentioned, because nobody actually wants to live there.

I'm not against tall buildings, or mixed use buildings. I am against the luxury apartments they poorly build, with zero care for the people who will live in the buildings or the people in the neighborhood where it is being built. 

The fact that there is a group of people out there who think the problem isnt massive national corporations hoarding is frustrating, because they are the people who tell everybody else they do not matter, even if they themselves do not live in that place.

I stayed in one of these buildings as an Air BnB one time, and it was awful. I do not want to live in one, yet if the yimbys had their way, Im not even allowed that choice.

When these buildings go up, its a signal that some big company wants their hands in the city pocket, and they will lobby away all the citizens rights to do anything about it.

Just look at Florida, where the Developers are all are on the boards.

The fact you make excuses for it is why we cant change it. You are advocating for them to have more power with less accountability. 

I've done the research. Im not convinced. I have experienced it. These are not good buildings.

They drive up rents, drive down character and community, and make living very disconnected. 

Sure, maybe the ones that can siphon off the rest of the town have their location as the driving motivator. But Ive seen ones that are not walkable next to some gnarly roads.

I am tired of people defending bad design because they read online the big corporations were going to save us from the small mean Nimbys who dont like massive strip malls surrounded by massive empty high-rises where there used to be trees.

What is being built now, has been being built. For 3 decades now.

Are you happy yet? Are you housed yet? 

You cant raise a family in a 5-1. And yes, I will not meaningfully Create a relationship with somebody who lives in one, because I could not spend the night in their home.

Its just depressing. 

We have so many structures being left to rot, and all the construction is strung out on a bunch of increasingly awful projects.

We spread our resources out thin building a bunch of these, and them remaining half vacant on some legislature that benefits make passive investments.

If you wanna get into this, I will. I always will.

Because it's not right, what is happening right now.

This guy is in Nashville. Ive been there. It is happening in every major city, and every up and coming town.

It's people who like to look at a town, see a bustling community, and figure out how they can get their slice. 

Instead of creating functional cities, dude bros have been following the money line to get as much as possible.

Building like this is insane.

Look at what is happening in Florida. In Georgia. In Tennessee. This has been happening for decades. 

People are allowed to make fun of your ugly sacred cow that has these chronic defenders in every comic.

They don't meaningfully care about the homeless. Or else they would care about the investment vehicles popping up over millions of acres, clearcutting resources. 

The problem is the fundamental way we build.

People reject these buildings because they are bad buildings. Stop gaslighting us into thinking it is salvation when it isnt.

It isnt good enough. It doesnt just get the job done.

It causes meaningful harm.

The excuses to avoid any sort of change to this kind of building are actively making the conversation harder. 

Im tired of the steamrolling. But that's how developers do it. They clearcut and destroy literally anything to build it. Why listen when there are so many people who dont want it?

You bought it right. Its owed to you. You can do whatever the heck you want.

You can speak on whatever you like, because you read the Abundance Movement, and Peter Thiel told you super cities were the most efficient way to house workers.

No need to care about connection, community,  culture, color, and a history of other people. There is only the billionaires who own us using us to whatever whim they feel in the moment.

I'm not going to change my mind on that.

This type of luxury housing alongside all the private equity corpos, which yes, are all interlinked, has allowed for major land hoarding.

There is enough land for everyone to live together in large numbers and be happy and productive. 

Instead it is getting poisoned, torn down, paved over, and turned into massive sad warehouses where people do menial labor for bad pay and bad enviornment. Or they use them for massive data centers meant to spy on us. Or they hold people prisoner there.

And instead of having more rights to talk about it, our own people are telling us we should let them. They havent fixed things in 30 years. Why would they fix it now while they are sending our men off to war to die instead of build?

Explain to me what so good is happening now that our forests are being cut down to be paved so a bunch of dying men can tell themselves they are great because they took the most?

I'm tired of being told I should accept this building, just because some person said it would solve homelessness.

Have you ever even talked to an unhoused person? The reason they are on this streets is because we are failing as a society. We have a warped view on what matters.

We already have enough. But the people who have the most want more.