Comments on: The West is an exploiter’s paradise https://writersontherange.org/the-west-is-an-exploiters-paradise/ Syndicated Opinion for the American West Fri, 31 Mar 2023 01:36:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Writers on the Range: The West is an exploiter’s paradise | SummitDaily.com https://writersontherange.org/the-west-is-an-exploiters-paradise/#comment-255 Sun, 19 Feb 2023 22:35:07 +0000 https://writersontherange.org/?p=5357#comment-255 […] story is from WritersOnTheRange.org. Richard Knight is a contributor to Writers on the Range, an independent nonprofit that hopes to […]

]]> By: Tim Taylor https://writersontherange.org/the-west-is-an-exploiters-paradise/#comment-249 Sun, 12 Feb 2023 17:44:48 +0000 https://writersontherange.org/?p=5357#comment-249 Thank you for writing what many of us are thinking. The trend to try and make the houses stand out and the use of exterior lighting to illuminate the house at night are terrible things. It is as if the builders and owners are juvenile and screaming “look at me, look at me”. Our night sky is now obliterated by these monstrosities.

]]> By: Honest Reviewer https://writersontherange.org/the-west-is-an-exploiters-paradise/#comment-248 Sat, 11 Feb 2023 02:44:06 +0000 https://writersontherange.org/?p=5357#comment-248 There was a time in America when people were raised to think of others, not just themselves. We were taught to care and have concern about those around us and about the effect our actions had on others. Now people seem focused on acquiring their over-the-top dazzling prizes no matter what the cost to others or the environment. The puzzling question is why do people need the biggest and the best these days? Huge mansions on the hill shining like some perverse beacon of materialistic consumerism gone mad. Soccer moms dropping their kids off at school in humongous gas-guzzling Suburban monstrosities. Is it some kind of egotistical trophy held up to others to say “I’m rich and you’re not, ha ha…”? Is it about posting your wealthy, fabulous, and happy life on Instagram for all to see and envy? I don’t know what it’s about. I’m forever confused why people feel the need for grandiose rather than an adequate more modest version. 

By the way, check the license plates of the trophy house owner’s Escalade (or is it a Range Rover?) and I’ll bet they’re “California” plates. Just sayin…

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