When posting beautiful images of cathedrals, I often get the same comment: “This is not possible anymore, because it costs too much”. In a world where buildings are destroyed, almost as soon as they are constructed, this false dichotomy has to go. It depends mostly upon the timeframe you’re thinking in.
The ancients had a much richer understanding of durée.
Our narrow modern minds can barely understand things in the timeframe of our lifetimes, so selfish and self-centered have we become.