10-19-2016, 09:15 AM
This sort of housing is a Veblen good, something built or bought because it is expensive and thus impressive. It need not be better or even functional. Examples include furs and gemstones.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.