Kinda makes me sad.

Not like the lack of fancy car designs, but just colour and personality.

I’ve been told our choices for paint will drive away future home buyers, except I’m looking to live not sell.

This is the first image that came up when I searched '1970 parking lot,'

About a hundred times as colorful as any modern lot.

YouTube really wants me to watch this video but I find it too ironic that it has a thumbnail with Ferrari EV that the internet hated but ended up selling above expectations.

Hot take. I don’t need my stuff to look cool. But to be good and functional.

Genuine human emotion - has be exploited and abused by capitalism and now for so many people taste or preference has been replaced by some kind of determination.

I used to work in a high rise next to a Toyota repair center, the % of white and medium in the car park, was crazy but given the the toyota user base of practical reliability it makes sense (despite it being a repair center). I always wanted to work next to a different brand. I know this is anecdotal but Try looking for a second hand sofa and count how many are grey.

IMO capitalism and marketing has bred so much uniformity people are almost scared to have their own style or step out of line, buying a purple car is seen as maverick. On the other hand they watch capitalist influencers peacocking as extreme individualists who make an effort to seem unique, seem being the operative word here, as that's what it is an operation. It is a bizarre balance that people seem mesmorised by.

Clean design is beautiful when we want to find out where we are going at a train station or an airport. Not so much for us that want joy in our homes and lifestyle.

I think much of the problem with design goes back to wealth disparity. Not enough consumers have the disposable income to make real choices in what they buy and instead have to go with cost as the largest or only factor. Sometimes you see articles on how efficient america is but its a dollar cost efficiency. Style and quality are not allowed to flourish.

What I’m hearing is Crumbl cookies

Hot take, I think my newish purple Avalon looks hot AF! The hood has subtle curves, and the sides have lines that are subtle but beautiful. The back is ugly af, but I don't look at it often.

Really cool video. One reason I don't think was explicitly mentioned but didn't really need to be is the capitalist society we're in now where everything must make more and more money so companies are rewarded for building things that all are safe and look the same to an extent, hence why the Luce sold so many units. No more are we getting stories about companies making something exciting and new to save their brand or make a statement it's just whatever will sell and it works for that purpose.

Capitalism : it's not a bug, it's a feature.