Not one of your better takes PE.
If people have no hopes, no dreams, no expectations and don't trust a single developer to deliver on their vision, at some point, you won't have a job, because people will be that angry, the industry will be shut down.
You need to be people to believe in those you do business with, to trust them, to hope that they will engage in city-building and most particularly, when they seem to promise to do so, that they will live up to that.
Sure, that's naive.....we both know better, as do many here..........
But if we reduce this City to everyone being cynical and thinking everyone else is a worthless, lying so and so.........
Well, that's not the City I want to live in.........
The problem is not people's expectations...........I would argue they aren't high enough.........
The problem is the people in the industry that fail to meet expectations, which I would describe as generously low.
