Elevators are one of the most inappropriate inventions of modern times. It is not the concept per se, but instead the execution of the elevator plan that falls so short of appropriateness. A situation in which human beings are forced into such unwanted intimacy is inherently wrong. Humans as a species were not designed to cope with other (nay, unfamiliar) humans in confined spaces. Ipso facto, elevators serve only to make the experience of existence even more painful that it has to be.
Take a journey in a peopled elevator today, and just feel the tension that suffuses the very air space into which you are confined for those torturous moments as you desperately await your destination. Unpleasant, isn't it?
My proposition? Individual elevators. (In addition to this, I would like to see isolation booths in libraries)
For other examples of inappropriate human confinement, see: underground train networks, espec. the London Tube.
Hoc est in votis
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