crazy how much this bugs me now that someone pointed it out. if i worked at the white house, i would find this ugly, but not as annoying as i do now. ignorance is really bliss bc they more you learn, the more you just walk around thinking "collar gap" and "kerning is off."

It's hard to have a rational discussion about future use of former heavy industry areas in Seattle because the issue is always "labor" or "our industrial heritage" vs. "greedy developers," regardless of whether these claims hold up. Predictions of crippling traffic, e.g., are almost always wrong.

If you can't find people willing to work for you, raise wages and improve conditions.
If you can't extract a profit after raising wages, you either need to restructure or accept that maybe your business sucks and you shouldn't exist.