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The shift isn’t simply a matter of taste. The rise of readily available materials like plastic and stainless steel, and the decline of wood us**e**, all contribute to a more muted colour palette. interesting details emerge when we look deeper into the data. The chart reveals a significant rise in grey over time

The same reason furniture and carpet and cabinets and everything in your house was made of the ugliest shades of drab brown and green and orange in the 1980s (Your example picture there with the bright pastel colors was not the norm). Looking back we think most of those colors were absolutely hideous, but everyone wanted them at the time.

White, black, and grey are the most popular colors for cars right now. And that’s by the choice of the consumers, there are plenty of other colors available if they wanted them.

I don’t think it’s as nefarious as a lot of people think.

Cars are in more neutral colours because that’s what sells the most. They still come in fun colours if you want (and in fact it seems like more exciting colours are starting to come back), but most people seem to buy neutral. Restaurants and other companies are making buildings boring because they are not only in the restaurant business, but in the real estate business. It is easier to sell a more average looking building to be reused than it is a McDonald’s with a play place or a Pizza Hut with its interesting shape.

The grey and drab colours in houses is just a trend, and one that seems to be ending to an extent with the new generation. My mother likes the white and grey “clean” sort of look, but I’ve got multiple brightly wallpapered and painted walls in my house, and social media shows me that it isn’t just me turning to more colour.

I think many things in the world are done for darker and more conspiracy related reasons, but I think a lot is also done out of greed for profits and other less sinister (or differently sinister than baby eating) reasons.

You may be connecting dots that don’t make a coherent picture.

Because now most of those fast food joints don’t actually own the properties. They rent it. When you rent, you’re not going to put in money and effort to paint it and build play spaces. There’s no risk for them to make sure the location is profitable, because if it’s not they’ll just close shop and move.

Have you ever read the giver?

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Easier to sell and change.

The purpose is so that these buildings are easily sellable. It’s not so much nefarious as it is practical. For example, a business might not want to purchase a building shaped like Pizza Hut due to conflicting branding. When business buildings are more homogenized, they become well-suited for multiple types of businesses.

Seattle checking in. It’s about this time of year we’re done with all that dayglo crap.

From a sociological angle during anxious and uncertain times (economic instability, political tension etc) societies subconsciously move towards muted tones. Bright expressive colors tend to thrive in eras of optimism and abundance like the good ole 60s.

Also our screens bombard us with hyper color 24/7. This digital overstimulation seems to be leading to physical minimalism. In such an overstimulated environment like that of which we are in neutral palettes provide a visual quiet in a world of chaos.

So yeah…God (evil) basically looks at one good thing and instructs one of his minions (although very powerful themselves) to draft an initiative to gradually eradicate one good thing within a decades time. This is outside his very active sacrificial activities.

Because it’s the 2020s and everything has to suck