The intent of a building code and the actual result of its enforcement may differ by a wide margin.  The injustice largely comes from selective enforcement under inappropriate circumstances.<p>I didn&#x27;t intend to make a point about building codes, but rather about how quickly humanity changes its standards for technological advancement.  For tens of thousands of years, a mud hut with tile roof and underfloor heating would have been a luxury accommodation.  Now, for a lot of people, it&#x27;s rustic and primitive, fit only for camping trips rather than permanent habitation.<p>Humanity is scary not only for its ability to construct shelters like this without any specialty-evolved biology, like a woodpecker&#x27;s beak, a beaver&#x27;s teeth, or mole claws, but because it can extrapolate the idea of shelter so far beyond our current survival needs that even a thing that well exceeds the minimum requirements is still considered obsolete.