Rising labor costs are often blamed for the lack of ornamentation in modern buildings, but a new paper argues that a shift in elite taste towards simplicity, coupled with the decreasing cost of robotic stone carving, might be bringing ornate buildings back. via Marginal REVOLUTION.
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