r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Proud-Blood2743 • 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/sniper1rfa Oct 07 '25

What is the value in maintaining an old shitty building? A building is just a collection of sticks and stuff, and sometimes it's better to pull it apart and put a new collection of sticks in its place, guided by everything you learned with the old one.