A Boring Dystopia
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The bizarre thing about this is that the media and tech companies are pretending this is because these people WANT to live in pods.
Not because they can't afford anything, even when they have tech jobs that should mean they get paid well.
It's the American dream for all your possessions to fit in a backpack so you can be the salaried unhoused.
No possessions, only consume!
That's not how this article reads to me. It even mentions high rent is driving the demand.
I didn't say this article was portraying it as such.
But in general the media and companies do. This "pod people" and "20 people sharing a 2 bedroom" thing has been in the news on and off for a few years already.
Oh I didn't think ya were! Sorry I probably should've put a /s there or something, absolutely agree! β₯
I was responding to iAmTheTot :)
i thought it would be like those japanese sleep pods but these dont even have a door π
Eeesh. Just get a van and convert it. Park at work. Gym membership for showers.
DMV: "Sir your van cannot be registered using itself as the address"
PO boxes exist
Hereβs a fun thought.
What happens to all these people living in sarcophagi (TIL thatβs a real word) when another pandemic/lockdown happen? Do they just go into solitary confinement conditions worse than actual solitary confinement in terms of square footage?
Asking for a friend that happens to be everyone in New York who isnβt rich
I stayed in a capsule hotel in Tokyo once. It was awful.
Seems cleaner, but similar to the kind of places I lived while getting into tech in SF (maybe ~8 months total)... I have some pretty interesting stories from that time lol. But extra hilarious was years later seeing a dystopian article about one of the very places I had lived (had it down to the Pinterest dev living in the closet):
I guess $23 and some change daily compares favorably, cost wise, with just getting a hotel room. But me -- I'll take the hotel room, thanks.
Los Angeles bases its occupancy limits on the square footage of a unit, rather than the number of bedrooms:
- One to two people for every 70β119 square feet
- Three people for every 120β169 square feet
- Four people for every 170β119 square feet
- 50 square feet for each additional person
700$ a month!? I mean if this is what it takes to keep more people from slipping through the cracks into homelessness I'm all for it, but fuck the whole system that got us to this point.
What could possibly go wrong? Such a terrible idea. I hope they have some safety measures in place to prevent sexual assault.
why would someone choose this over living literally anywhere else?
Proximity/price and community. Anything in SF proper is going to be, at minimum, 2-3x more expensive. To get this kind of price, you'd need to commute from outside the city.
Re community, the people that live at this kind of place are generally grinding super hard in the tech industry. So trying to live with like-minded workaholics in the same stage of life.
Source: I have lived in SF and east bay, both in places like this, and renting an apt the normal way.
Beats a studio in rural New Hampshire.
That website is a disaster. Endless pop up ads that play sound and constantly interrupt your reading. How does anyone use it?
On Firefox android with u block origin, I get a total of 0 ads, pop ups, sounds, etc.
The techies rework really left the poor guys in shambles :(
Like Matrix, but service is lacking and price is still early adopters. In the future, we might not need to leave our pods and get them for free.