Does this 4T seem a little 2T-ish to anyone else?

[JasonBlack]

(04-07-2022, 02:55 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Millennials will be as much re-builders as builders. They are unlikely to show sentimentality even to GI constructions that have met or surpassed their expected service life -- even if they admire the GI's who built them. I'm tempted to believe that huge swaths of GI-built "starter" homes will give way to huge blocks of high-density housing if housing is to be affordable. I can only hope that such is more attractive than the Stalinist architecture that prevails when construction must be cheap and swift, with ugly blandness as a result. Housing built for a population of 150 million is inadequate for a population of 350 million. Even without the ideology, Stalinist architecture (think of the Pruitt-Igoe Towers) dehumanizes people.

I don't think most millennials outside of the historically minded really think much about the GIs, so that much isn't surprising (if anything, I think generational cycles repeat precisely because of this lost-to-history tendency of the most recent elder generation). Needless to say, we share the same hopes there.

Quote:We will need to disperse the American population, especially back to places that in recent times have faced economic ruin. Why not revive places like Detroit, Flint, Dayton, Youngstown,  St. Louis, Peoria, Muncie, and South Bend? Detroit, when the center of the auto industry (arguably a good analogue to Silicon Valley in its time)  attracted people from around the world when the auto industry was the High Tech of its time. Let's not forget that much of the high technology goes into vehicles these days.

I foresee some exciting infrastructure projects overseen by millennials. They may very well redeem themselves in my eyes if they can pull this off without the confiscatory taxes of the previous 4T and 1T.