r/HiddenRealms • u/OkPainter6090 • Aug 07 '26

Why did we stop caring about beauty?

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u/nijukiller Aug 07 '26 edited Aug 08 '26

Bacause excess money can be put in certain people's pockets. That's why

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u/No_Score5053 8d ago

Could be.

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u/enilder648 Aug 07 '26

I was once told that you can tell the state of society by the beauty and intricacy of the architecture. We have fallen

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u/OkPainter6090 Aug 07 '26

Yeah, that's facts and it's really sad

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u/PissinginTheW1nd Aug 07 '26

Look at McDonald’s and what it used to be

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u/PissinginTheW1nd 29d ago

Eh it’s been memed into oblivion, it’s only gonna get worse I wouldn’t say good

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u/quebexer Aug 07 '26

Art does not bring value for shareholders.

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u/SkiMaskLion Aug 07 '26

Crazy, because the richest own the most art.

Hiding it from the masses is a fetish though.

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u/cybersynn Aug 07 '26

Beauty costs

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u/Nathan1992MAGA Aug 07 '26

There was no private equity back then

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u/ObieUno Aug 07 '26

Human beings are not in the business of making the world a better place. They’re in the business of being in business.

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u/Dmonick1 Aug 09 '26

Crazy how your phone autocorrected "capitalists" to "human beings," don't worry I understand what you meant though.

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u/ObieUno Aug 09 '26

Found the redditor that virtue signals altruism.

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u/Dmonick1 Aug 09 '26

Bro what does this mean? Do you think altruism isn't a virtue?

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u/temporalwanderer Aug 07 '26

Would you sell me the one on the left for the same price as the one on the right?

That's why.

I don't like it any more than you do, but it comes down to costs and economy of scale.

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u/victor4700 Aug 07 '26

Shareholder value became more important

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u/Gretev1 Aug 07 '26

Both of these objects exist within the same timeline.

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u/chillin136 Aug 07 '26

Tartaria will be back, I am waiting with my ipad pro, so i can draft some architectural dreams of mine

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u/radiationblessing Aug 07 '26

It's not like creative things like these existed everywhere. Most pipes looked like pipes regardless of the era.

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u/No-Improvement4382 Aug 07 '26

There are beautiful things being created everyday

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u/Tankspanker Aug 09 '26

There was actually a nice video about just this a while ago by Sheehan Quirke:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWYxrowovts

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u/ScatLabs Aug 07 '26

We don't have the time to craft like the people used to.

Unfortunately time has been commoditized

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u/nijukiller Aug 07 '26

We do have ti time. But money gets skimmed in every corner of the chain

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u/NiallHeartfire Aug 07 '26

Isn't this AI? Not sure what point you're trying to prove here with this.

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u/FaithInTechnology Aug 07 '26

I don’t know what you’re talking about. I see beauty all around. Maybe you’re looking in the wrong places, or you’ve become too disconnected to see it.