>> It depends on the stability of the tenement residents. <<
Steve has impressive social skills. That means, despite growing up variously sick, with a single mother, in an orphanage, and during the Depression ... he somehow got quite a lot of social support. So I think he and Bucky found themselves a tight-knit tenement where people compensated for each other's weaknesses. Bucky could go out and work for cash, while Steve stayed home and did odd jobs on the good days or had someone to look in on him for the bad days. They'd share scarce resources so everyone could get by. This leaves a very different imprint than if they'd picked out the kind of place Bruce favors: where people studiously ignore everything.
>> The social history for this period is profuse and uneven. I never took the statistics needed to get into the primary sources; my skill is more at puncturing the assumptions that may be lurking in the write up. <<
The advantage to a patchy history is that you can pick the part of it that suits your current needs, and it'll be valid as one option among many.
>> There are some very interesting 'shared economy' innovations with the Modern Flats for the upscale markets. Things that a much richer society could make standard. <<
Yes. I admire the cohousing movement myself, which neatly balances small private spaces with lavish public spaces. Avengers Tower draws on that a great deal, although Tony being Tony, the private spaces are large and lavish too. But still, in proportion, there is more Avengers-common and tower-common space than their private apartments.
>> Steve's day is closer to 1950s Russia; now much poverty is a lack of will to be humane, then there were serious limits on production and transportation. <<
Painfully true. Steve is livid over willful construction of poverty. It's one thing to be poor for lack of resources, quite another when someone is hogging the supplies.
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Re: Getting Through
Date: 2014-04-25 07:17 pm (UTC)Steve has impressive social skills. That means, despite growing up variously sick, with a single mother, in an orphanage, and during the Depression ... he somehow got quite a lot of social support. So I think he and Bucky found themselves a tight-knit tenement where people compensated for each other's weaknesses. Bucky could go out and work for cash, while Steve stayed home and did odd jobs on the good days or had someone to look in on him for the bad days. They'd share scarce resources so everyone could get by. This leaves a very different imprint than if they'd picked out the kind of place Bruce favors: where people studiously ignore everything.
>> The social history for this period is profuse and uneven. I never took the statistics needed to get into the primary sources; my skill is more at puncturing the assumptions that may be lurking in the write up. <<
The advantage to a patchy history is that you can pick the part of it that suits your current needs, and it'll be valid as one option among many.
>> There are some very interesting 'shared economy' innovations with the Modern Flats for the upscale markets. Things that a much richer society could make standard. <<
Yes. I admire the cohousing movement myself, which neatly balances small private spaces with lavish public spaces. Avengers Tower draws on that a great deal, although Tony being Tony, the private spaces are large and lavish too. But still, in proportion, there is more Avengers-common and tower-common space than their private apartments.
>> Steve's day is closer to 1950s Russia; now much poverty is a lack of will to be humane, then there were serious limits on production and transportation. <<
Painfully true. Steve is livid over willful construction of poverty. It's one thing to be poor for lack of resources, quite another when someone is hogging the supplies.