• x4740N@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Makes me wonder why they don’t just reuse old buildings that are still structurally stable

    Oh right, it’s because of capitalism

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      1 year ago

      You say that like demolition and building a new structure aren’t fucking expensive. Old buildings are reused for new things all the time.

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        1 year ago

        Old buildings also go unused because some rich fuck would rather hoard empty buildings when they could be converted into affordable homes for example

        And most demolition material ends up in waste and isn’t reused, it’d very wasteful to demolish a building to sell the land when some other person is going to build another building out of other materials

        Companies claim resources are getting more scarce but they really can’t be half-assed to start recycling and finding more sustainable ways to make things

        Edit: and companies also do create artificial scarcity of resources they sell to others as a way to Jack up prices as well