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RE: The Future of Mobile House Cars
Because the housing development industry doesn't want houses to last forever. They will profit like mad off these disasters. Remember when John DeLorian created a car that would last forever and never rust? He was railroaded into prison because the automakers need people to replace their cars every 5-10 years so they have a permanent income stream.
I hope we can find ways to reverse things like that. I know they profit that way but didn't know those specifics. But I understand that system of profit. They make things as cheap as possible to make more profit and to get them to come back sooner and more often again and again and all of that becomes normal for people. We all think it is normal to buy clothes and new shows so often like once a year or few years or every few months.... but shoes should be able to last many years.....
We as a society have been inculcated by a long time effort to entrain us to be a society that buys, and disposes, only to buy again. Betrand Russel had a huge hand in that, and our dominance after WW II owes itself to that aspect of our culture. (That and most of Europes factories were bombed to oblivion.)
We CAN do better.
We should live in underground houses.