I used to wonder about this. I lived in New York City for many years, and never once had a dishwasher even in expensive apartments, but then we moved to Europe, and even cheap apartments have a dishwasher, and they’re all disguised as cabinets.

It now makes total sense to me. Why have the dishwasher jump out at your eye? Cabinets here, even the low-end ones, are meant to be unobtrusive and pleasant to the eye.

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But I’m not here to talk about cabinets… but capitalism.

I wrote a longer article here, inspired in part by yours!