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We really need a way to protect ourselves against what the rich are doing to the rest of us.
This is really difficult when a large part of the population is either apathetic or actively sympathetic to the policies of these insane people.
That seems spectacularly awful--although there's probably been an overall trend in US college dorms (not that I've made a real study of it) towards small single rooms with common areas in general.
That students expect to live multiple years without any private space at all in the US has always struck me as very odd. I'm very glad I had a small private room (though, as is common in the UK, I only lived my first year in institutional accommodation). If course it had a working, opening window, a large house common room, a basement pool and games room (in terrible condition of course) and lots of open space outside...
"The idea was conceived by 97-year-old billionaire-investor turned amateur-architect Charles Munger, who donated $200 million toward the project with the condition that his blueprints be followed exactly." Absolutely amazing
We really need a way to protect ourselves against what the rich are doing to the rest of us.
"The idea was conceived by 97-year-old billionaire-investor turned amateur-architect Charles Munger, who donated $200 million toward the project with the condition that his blueprints be followed exactly." Absolutely amazing
> an 11-story, 1.68-million-square-foot structure that would house up to 4,500 students, 94 percent of whom would not have windows in their small, single-occupancy bedrooms. > Munger maintains the small living quarters would coax residents out of their rooms and into larger common areas, where they could interact and collaborate. That seems unlikely.
"The idea was conceived by 97-year-old billionaire-investor turned amateur-architect Charles Munger, who donated $200 million toward the project with the condition that his blueprints be followed exactly." Absolutely amazing
We really need a way to protect ourselves against what the rich are doing to the rest of us.
The individual rooms look a lot like prison cells.
"The idea was conceived by 97-year-old billionaire-investor turned amateur-architect Charles Munger, who donated $200 million toward the project with the condition that his blueprints be followed exactly." Absolutely amazing
We really need a way to protect ourselves against what the rich are doing to the rest of us.
It's their responsibility to say no, and they failed in that job.
Wow this is an idea by Warren Buffett’s business partner? I thought he was widely respected but this indeed seems like a monstrosity. Why would he put his name and legacy on it? There must be another side to the story, though it’s hard to imagine what. Wikipedia mentions that he has done this at University of Michigan too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Munger#Architectural_w... https://observer.com/2019/05/wa…