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The thing is, the need for large expansive homes have substantially evaporated in younger generations as technology advances.

The desire for a massive home as a well off (not wealthy, but above peasant) person was due to:

1. Needing somewhere to store all your necessary shit, your tools of your trade, etc etc.

2. Needing somewhere for your servant(s) to live, because they took care of the house for you

3. Somewhere to store all your books and other pleasantries

However, our servants are now tiny little robots that dont need to eat or sleep, they dont need an entire bedroom and seat at the table.

The entire knowledge of all of humanity no longer requires a library of alexandria, but instead can fit in your pocket.

Many folks have all the tools of their trade able to fit in a small laptop bag at most.

When you can largely fit all your requirements of modern life in a single cardboard box, as opposed to needing several rooms, the desire for a mansion dwindles. Entire kitchens have been replaced with a single microwave and a hotplate.

Meals that used to take an entire day and a whole kitchen staff to prepare, now take a single person hitting an on button.

We have VR, laptops, netflix, the entire internet, etc etc all at our fingertips.

And most importantly, we have cars and whatnot. A trip to the store is no longer a "wake up at 6 in the morning to get the horses saddled and hitched, then three hour ride into town, get back home just before sunset" affair.

It's now "hop in the car and drive over to the store in 10 minutes"

And unlike horses, a car doesnt need a whole ass stable and stablehand. It can just... sit there lol

So yeah, its perfectly reasonable for us to slowly revert back to small life, everything we could possibly need to live life can fit in an extremely small square footage now, theres literally no need to have a giant mansion, it's largely pointless.