>>18507820
>muh cost
>muh design, proportions
>doesn't understand that statues, floral and geometric designs and symbols have their own design language and mathematical proportions
Uncultured, uncivilized materialistic NPCs. It costs more because it takes more effort, skill, and artistic vision to make something beautiful and meaningful. The Mona Lisa doesn't cost millions because its canvas and its paints costed millions to manufacture. The cost isn't about the material and wages themselves. A monkey (or a machine) can build that thing with some basic blue prints. But it takes a human with a soul to fill it with art that says something meaningful about the building, its purpose and what it represents to its people beyond its base utility.