transcription: women be like “where can i find a goth gf?” my sister in christ we killed the american shopping mall and the goth girls lost their natural habitat

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    4 days ago

    What happened was same day delivery.

    On kind of a weird note, a kind of bright side… a number of former malls are basically being converted into… sort of really slapdash, improvised arcologies.

    Most of the stores get resectioned and converted to basically apartments or condos, and sometimes a few are kept open as actual stores.

    So… you can now, theoretically, be a goth girl who actually literally lives in a mall, possibly even directly inside a former Hot Topic or Spencers.

    Here’s Forbes laying out the case for this potentially making financial sense:

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/chriswestfall/2024/12/09/from-retail-to-rentals-how-empty-malls-became-housing-solutions/

    Ironically… the original intention of the guy that came up with the concept of a shopping mall… was that they would actually be much more like this, intentionally planned, walkable, largely self-sustaining, utopian communities, dreams of the 1950s/60s.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Gruen

    The mall was commercially successful, but the original design was never fully realized, as the intended apartment buildings, schools, medical facilities, park and lake were not built.

    Yeah.

    Malls were actually always supposed to be this way.

    But we decided to build suburbs and highways instead, fundamentally missing the entire point, because Oil and Gas profits must go BRRrRr