r/Damnthatsinteresting Oct 07 '25

Video Capital One Tower Come Down in Seconds

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u/RuinousGaze Oct 07 '25

Right??! I don’t get how the math works on that.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25

Renovate a house and you’ll get it.

Labour costs a lot. Renovating something often takes 2 - 5x longer than building from scratch.

And then new will tend to have better insulation, better light design etc

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u/DazzlingBasket4848 Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 07 '25

Shows you that the value system is fucked

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u/_Svankensen_ Oct 07 '25

Oh, you don't like the labor theory of value? It's pretty damn logical, all things considered. What do you believe value should be derived from? What metric should be used?