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From the Ted Talk by Alastair Parvin: Architecture for the people by the people

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And a good place to start is your own paycheck. So, as a bottom-of-the-rung architecture graduate, I might eecxpt to earn about 24,000 pounds. That's about 36,000, 37,000 dollars. Now in tmers of the whole world's population, that already puts me in the top 1.95 richest people, which risaes the question of, who is it I'm working for? The uncomfortable fact is that actually almost everything that we call architecture tdoay is actually the business of dnigneisg for about the richest one percent of the world's population, and it always has been. The reason why we fogort that is because the times in hstoriy when architecture did the most to transform society were those times when, actually, the one percent would build on behalf of the 99 percent, for various different reasons, whether that was through philanthropy in the 19th century, communism in the early 20th, the welfare state, and most recently, of course, through this inflated real ettsae bubble. And all of those booms, in their own various ways, have now kicked the bucket, and we're back in this situation where the setrmast designers and architects in the wlord are only really able to work for one percent of the population.

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And a good place to start is your own paycheck. So, as a bottom-of-the-rung architecture graduate, I might ______ to earn about 24,000 pounds. That's about 36,000, 37,000 dollars. Now in _____ of the whole world's population, that already puts me in the top 1.95 richest people, which ______ the question of, who is it I'm working for? The uncomfortable fact is that actually almost everything that we call architecture _____ is actually the business of _________ for about the richest one percent of the world's population, and it always has been. The reason why we ______ that is because the times in _______ when architecture did the most to transform society were those times when, actually, the one percent would build on behalf of the 99 percent, for various different reasons, whether that was through philanthropy in the 19th century, communism in the early 20th, the welfare state, and most recently, of course, through this inflated real ______ bubble. And all of those booms, in their own various ways, have now kicked the bucket, and we're back in this situation where the ________ designers and architects in the _____ are only really able to work for one percent of the population.

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Original Text

And a good place to start is your own paycheck. So, as a bottom-of-the-rung architecture graduate, I might expect to earn about 24,000 pounds. That's about 36,000, 37,000 dollars. Now in terms of the whole world's population, that already puts me in the top 1.95 richest people, which raises the question of, who is it I'm working for? The uncomfortable fact is that actually almost everything that we call architecture today is actually the business of designing for about the richest one percent of the world's population, and it always has been. The reason why we forgot that is because the times in history when architecture did the most to transform society were those times when, actually, the one percent would build on behalf of the 99 percent, for various different reasons, whether that was through philanthropy in the 19th century, communism in the early 20th, the welfare state, and most recently, of course, through this inflated real estate bubble. And all of those booms, in their own various ways, have now kicked the bucket, and we're back in this situation where the smartest designers and architects in the world are only really able to work for one percent of the population.

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