The McMansion has received yet another posthumous takedown, this time in the pages of Salon, where writer Thomas Frank paints them as homes that "exists to separate and then celebrate the people who are wealthier than everybody else," both driving forces behind and rewards of the last thirty years of U.S. economic policy. But with home sizes still on the rise, and McMansions popping up in China and inside churches, we could be stuck with them for quite some time. [Salon; previously]
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