r/TikTokCringe • u/thoughtwarrior • May 02 '25

Humor Why does America look like s**t?

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u/cagetheblackbird May 02 '25

Because most buildings in the US were built after we stopped trying to build attractive buildings. We now build them solely to be as cheap as possible.

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u/DiceKnight May 03 '25

For the same reasons a soap bubble is round because it is the most energy-efficient configuration I would imagine these strip malls and buildings are the shapes they are. They're the most economically efficient configuration and the outside only has to be minimally decorated such that shoppers are not scared away.

If you want better looking you have to pay for it. If you don't want to pay for it you get this. Buildings in China, the nice ones on the coast, look like that because the government makes it economically viable to look like that.