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Death to America

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[-] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

The idea of American suburbs is that everyone (read: settlers) will live like royalty. You will have your own horse and buggy (SUV), and you will be so wealthy that your land is simply used to grow grass, as a flex. It is a celebration of excess.

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

The worst thing about lawns is that they are like castles or villas by the sea: luxury goods invented for the exclusive pleasure of a very rich minority, and which in conception and nature were never intended for the people.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

As soon as a person/consumer acquires a lawn, their demand for lawns jumps to a higher level, and the more of other people's lawns that are around, the more diluted the value of one's own lawn becomes; the economy functionally cannot meet the demand for people having a lawn.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Begun, the lawn wars have.

God I remember my uncle's lawn-feud with his neighbor, them constantly trying to one-up each other with nicer lawns. Pathetic.

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