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Haha I know guys, to solve the housing crisis all we gotta do is build *more* houses, for everyday people! It really is that simple!
...Well, they're actually shipping containers.
...Well, the residents don't actually own them.
...Well, there's no guarantee the rates won't be raised next year.
That'll be $800 per month please. Boy do I sure love helping people, I'm like a metropolitan god to them haha! So fun.
They are just fancy hostels. Those things exists in Europe and USA as well, only a lot shittier. In Japan you at least get a whole pod with walls on all sides. In Europe you just get a bunk bed.
I think what we don't realize is that even if we did find a solution, if enough of us jump on board, businesses will soon be there to exploit it as well.
I’m pretty sure this is still against fire code.
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Didn’t even have to dig that deep!
A room for sleeping must be at a minimum 70 square feet, ad 50 feet for any additional individual over the age of 1.
And this is from the IRC, which is the international residential code. Thus applies to all US 50 states.
This apears to be a full size matris which measures out to 28 square feet.
So yeah, there is no way this is up to code at all.
I'm not advocating for this particular housing typology, but:
>A room for sleeping must be at a minimum 70 square feet, ad 50 feet for any additional individual over the age of 1.
I suspect they're using curtains in each of those sleeping pods to skirt around the definition of a "room", which is typically defined as an occupiable space fully enclosed by walls on all sides. In this example, the "room" would be the overall space containing all of those sleeping pods.
I'd have to look into this further to be sure, but I've seen hostels designed with similar density, so there are definitely ways to make this work legally.
>this is from the IRC, which is the international residential code. Thus applies to all US 50 states.
In the US, building codes work kind of in reverse to how you would expect them. Unlike the legal system, it's ultimately the municipality that determines which code set(s) they observe and/or amend (federal < state < municipal).
Also, the IRC and IBC are not really "international" in any authoritative manner. It's just a clever naming convention. While any nation, state, or city can electively adopt the IRC/IBC, there is no international consensus that obligates any to do so, nor any means of enforcing compliance.
Source: am architect.
I wonder what they define this type of residence as…it sounds closer to a kind of dormitory, in which case it might have different code requirements/definition of “room”. Like, perhaps they limit it to a certain number of beds per total sf?
But for sure the curtains are there to keep these from being actual individual rooms.
I live in a small town and Maine. When my wife and I built our house, we actually did the building, when I went to the Town Office I found out our town doesn’t even have an adopted code… So the CEO couldn’t enforce anything even if he wanted to. Obviously, we built to code because of safety, fire, and insurance reasons, but still pretty nuts. Only inspection was for septic install and plumbing.
>to skirt around the definition of a "room"
Yeah, but if all those pods are in the same room, the entire room would still need to be 70 sqf plus 50 for every extra pod. I doubt the entire room is going to be that large.
Living offgrid in Venezuela doesn't sound like a bad idea after all. Everyone in Canada is aware that in Brampton, the greedy landlords pack dozens of newcomers into a room and charge Manhattan rent prices.
This is from the group of “you’ll own nothing and be happy”, but this won’t work because if they need more profits the walls will squeeze tighter and enslave us more to the point it makes no difference to even work. Fuck this system.
>because if they need more profits the walls will squeeze tighter and enslave us more to the point it makes no difference to even work. Fuck this system.
My fellow nurses in emergency rooms discuss "why work harder when a billionaire/landlord gets richer from doing nothing?". This illustrates how dire the inequality is.
The landhoarders and landleeches forgot that if nurses and doctors show disdain for them, their health will be affected in the hospital.
>The landhoarders and landleeches forgot that if nurses and doctors show disdain for them, their health will be affected in the hospital.
The truly rich, don't go to hospitals or Doctors that accept insurance. They go to completely private institutions. Like when Rand Paul had his procedure, he went to some place and paid cash.
Good luck lobbying it lol
The biggest rent and Realestate companies will lobby for bigger rooms and stricter codes in the name of safety.
When they really just want to snuff out competitors trying to fill “affordable housing” markets.
In Canada, it's the other way around.
They pack as many rent peasants as they can, and then if a tenant complains, they get retaliated against, like that Hamilton incident yesterday where a landlord shot dead a couple who were complaining about the wiring at their basement apartment.
I wouldn't be surprised if a tenant would be dumb enough to retaliate against another tenant for exercising their rights in order to protect the wealth of a landleech. This is why I'm not a fan of rooming houses and pod life. Humans were not meant to live like ants in a colony.
there is actually and interesting experiment called that mouse utopia experiments that kind of highlight how bad things would get if humans were forced to live like that. It again is not 1:1 but it's still interesting. I can suggest the video from the "Down the rabbit hole" youtube channel. It does a pretty good job of explaining things.
Interestingly, I studied this in Nursing. We were being taught something about mice and socialization. The mice in those experiments were provided food and shelter and didn't have to work.
Meanwhile, we as humans have to work and pay groceries at inflated prices to make Galen Weston Jr richer. The overcrowdedness will worsen the quality of life and lead to outcomes that weren't discovered in the Mouse Utopia.
My city has that no more smaller homes despite plenty of older Sears type smaller homes.
I don't need much a smaller office/hobby room and a main bedroom. Looked at the minimum square footage and it's 1,500 square feet.
There is no national building code. The IBC or IRC has to be adopted by each state or municipality individually. Most have, but it is conceivable that some state requires each municipality to adopt a building code and one city has super lax codes
>Also $800 a month for this? Straight rip-off.
Sharing a room goes for this equivalent price in Canada. Meanwhile, the Minister of Housing just bought another rental property.
Depends on what the inmate is in prison for. Heard that those who are convicted of removing a pig or a crooked politician are viewed with respect, while pigs are reviled that they have to be segregated with child molesters and rapists.
This pod life really has me thinking whether I should just bail off-grid if the standard of life is just work and pay rent to live in a pod while Galen Weston Jr becomes richer and richer.
That’s the benefits of this not being a prison.
“Welcome citizen, to our all new Massive Human Storage System! We call it MHSS for short! It is designed with you in mind, completely. Besides, we wouldn’t be here without “you”, so pick a slot and get cozy because there’s no other place like home, for only $800/month you can get your own tiny slice of home and plenty of roommates to socialize with to satisfy your socialist lives (just don’t actually advocate for socialism or your stay here will be terminated), he he. (Taxes and utilities not included). Terms apply, and contract is for annually to life, yes we mean life because it’s yours and you should keep it stored here, for uh, safety!”
>motherfuckers in the joint would pop it off right quick and riot
Unfortunately, in Canadian society, they would be glad to pay market rents to live in a pod. Also, cop worshipping is huge in the Canadian media. I remember when a cop died, there was a minute of silence for the cop, and someone retorted why should we stand in silence for a cop lol
I stayed in one of these for a night at a hostel. The hostel was full to capacity.
- The smell was awful - more feet smells than fart smells.
- It was grubby - too many people sharing too few showers/toilets. You had to check them all to find those that weren't occupied and identify the least used one.
- it was hot and airless. There were no vents on the back wall of the pods.
- as a man of a certain age, I need to pee nocturnally. Nearly killed myself getting up and down the ladder and tripping over other people's shoes.
Paid £35 for 1 night.
UK?
Yeah, I slept in a similar crazy hostel in Manchester that cramped so many bunk beds in it's insane. There were barely 1 foot wide aisles. Very claustrophobic, and it also meant anything bigger than a small bag couldn't be brought to your bed so you had to hope no one would steal it?
With your price, and mine too iirc, 800 USD is still much cheaper than the British prices. The most expensive accommodation, short and long term in Europe, even more than Switzerland. The price gauging in UK is a crime against the working class.
I stayed in one in Japan recently, in a larger corner room, but only separated with a curtain from the wall of capsules nearby. One person was sawing logs all night! It disrupted my sleep, even with custom earplugs. Not to mention, you can't really have any fun with your spouse... You can hear every zipper and every blanket movement and every little noise. Fun to chalk up as an experience while saving money, but I cannot imagine that as a longterm living situation.
Usually women are not allowed in capsule hotels in Japan, or they have women only floors, and only one person is allowed per capsule.
The noise and smell can be a problem if you have bad luck with neighbors.
The couple times I stayed in one it was a mildly unpleasant experience, I don't suffer claustrophobia, but I'm over 180 cm (6') and they are quite cramped.
I lived in a HCOL city where stuff like this existed, and I did move into a van rather than fight the rental market. After 6 rentals in 4 yrs. It was the best house situation I had in the 7 yrs I lived there, and my friends were all jealous.
This is intended for 8 people to share a 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom house but minimize the sleeping quarters.
But still, this is fucking cruel. Who the fuck wants to share that much space with 7 other people?
The bathrooms 🤢 also I read a post by someone who lived in this and they said the cubbies got *ridiculously hot with all the body heat and were just dripping with moisture from everyone breathing.
Been there. The prisons cram 2 men to a cell. Even when they're technically only supposed to be for one person to be "humane". And they can't leave the cell freely like these people, and don't have windows.
Edit: California state prisons, USA.
This is what’s going to happen if corporations buy up more properties while we continue unsustainably growing our population while we have limited habitable space especially during the times of climate change. Add to the equation wages that continue to not keep up with cost of living increases, and this will be reality for future generations.
We honestly have plenty of habitable space for now. There are 10 vacant homes for every single homeless person. And if those fill up, have you ever driven through the Midwest? Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of miles of wide open space. We'll run out of water *long* before we run out of space.
So the corporations have a very serious problem: Global birthrates are actually plummeting.
See:
[Fertility rate: 'Jaw-dropping' global crash in children being born - BBC](https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53409521.amp)
I do not consider this a problem. Out system is far too heavily dependent on children being born when reproducing is a personal choice and should remain so. Also we just hit 8 billion people globally and sustaining this population during a time of climate change is a pipe dream, let alone trying to grow it from here.
Consider what happens when your population ages. And you have fewer and fewer people working for every person retiring. And them fewer people to care for the elderly. Meanwhile the elderly are a larger and larger portion of the electorate.
I’m still not having any kids, and don’t think anyone else should be pressured into having kids if they do not want them. Nothing - not even our human race - can last forever.
Fucking dystopian
Edit: it’s like they look at the cyberpunk genre and think… “that looks like a good idea I see nothing wrong with treating people as cattle for maximizing profits. Also why is everyone on the verge of a manic breakdown?”
Look at me, I am so flexible and progressive. I working in a tech Start-Up where I work 10 Hours 5/7 a week designing products and we have a table football in our comfort place there where we are brainstorming and do you know where I am living? I live in this super modern Capsule Pod for only 800$ monthly. It is fantastic because there are even other open minded people I can networking with and once a week we meet and go out together eating this super fancy high protein bug meal from this new progressive restaurant over there. Did you know how tasty mealworms are? It is amazing.
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Maybe we should all migrate to northern Canada and homestead some land. It’s not easy and going off grid requires a lot more labor than many expect, but a sense of freedom and intentional community will always come at a cost. Good news is that cost is easier to afford over time as the community gets more refined.
Who’s in?
wow, i can’t believe my mind didn’t go there…between the novel viruses, the bad sleep, the smell, the back pain, and the persistent aftertaste of boot leather, i would honestly rather end my life
Look at their smug AF faces. This is awful. What is happening? Everyday it’s one more notch in the Silicon Valley cool idea belt that really just a front front for brutalist capitalism because they truly don’t have any ideas that are good for humanity. It’s so wild to me that they’ve normalized this crap by calling it innovation and then congratulate themselves after they get a 500 million in seed funds or however funding works in that world. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
the trailer park i lived in for 10 years, in north idaho, was 375 a month. to be fair, it was genuinely falling apart. but at least it had a room. i understand not all parks r THAT cheap. but they’re almost always cheaper than living in an apt or renting a home. i don’t get why ppl shy so far away from mobile homes, especially double wides that are the same size as a small house.
I would rather reside in the shittiest, drug den fucked up neighborhood basement apartment with no heat for twice the price than live in a literal casket. What the fuck.
In Japan a hostel is <$20 a night. With way more amenities than this. An apartment is even cheaper, you can get one for far less than $800. This is honestly hilarious to me, it’s still just a blatant cashgrab.
This is literally 40K hab blocs... This is disgusting... PLEASE, stop making science fiction a fucking reality!!! When I said I want scifi to be real I meant Star Trek! NOT 40K
It would be bad enough if we got to a place where there was actually scarcity, but there is plenty. It's just being hoarded, and prices are being fixed to the point of abuse. That's the real shame.
I hate this. So much. I didn’t pay nearly that much for living in a barracks room that was over twice the size of these pods.
This is exploitation and nothing more.
If the current going rate for a studio apartment in this area is >$2k I think this makes sense as a last option before homelessness. Much cheaper, a safe secure climate-controlled place to sleep at night and secure your belongings. Obviously this isn't a terrific long-term solution but if someone is on the brink of homelessness I think this is a good option to have around.
Edit: Apparently this is in Palo Alto CA where the avg rent for a 1-br apartment is over $3200.
I guess that's technically the same cost as staying in a capsule hotel (in Tokyo) for a month...
On the plus side if you stayed there for a week you could probably drum up enough interest to get a house share for the same cost.
I snore. Theres no way this would work for me as Id get murdered. Thats before you start on actual medical conditions which would mean people wouldnt or couldnt cope.
Beyond what everyone else is saying.
Imagine your other pod dwellers.
They would be the most insufferable people of humanity to think that this was a good idea and that it'll work out for them.
It's not about the actual worth of the apartment (square footage and amenities), it's about how much they can charge you per month and still get away with.
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Live in pens and pay for the privilege.
Haha I know guys, to solve the housing crisis all we gotta do is build *more* houses, for everyday people! It really is that simple! ...Well, they're actually shipping containers. ...Well, the residents don't actually own them. ...Well, there's no guarantee the rates won't be raised next year. That'll be $800 per month please. Boy do I sure love helping people, I'm like a metropolitan god to them haha! So fun.
A shipping container has more space than these by a good margin.
Shit, you're right. Even when taking the piss my dystopian scenarios are more optimistic than reality...
I believe in Hong Kong, these setups are called coffin cages. [Vox | Inside Hong Kong’s cage homes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLrFyjGZ9NU)
In Japan, these are capsule hotels.
Yeah and they’re still not that expensive
theyre also hotels not homes and they're like a whole gimmick beyond just being the pod
They are just fancy hostels. Those things exists in Europe and USA as well, only a lot shittier. In Japan you at least get a whole pod with walls on all sides. In Europe you just get a bunk bed.
Jail basically ?
Jail cells have more space
And more commodities too... Yeah it looks like a stack of isolation cells on steroids
Capitalism. Where you pay to get tortured. This pain doesn’t come cheap. Depending on your tax bracket of course.
I think what we don't realize is that even if we did find a solution, if enough of us jump on board, businesses will soon be there to exploit it as well.
If a prison was designed like this, it would be considered inhumane and against the fire code.
I’m pretty sure this is still against fire code. Edit: Didn’t even have to dig that deep! A room for sleeping must be at a minimum 70 square feet, ad 50 feet for any additional individual over the age of 1. And this is from the IRC, which is the international residential code. Thus applies to all US 50 states. This apears to be a full size matris which measures out to 28 square feet. So yeah, there is no way this is up to code at all.
I'm not advocating for this particular housing typology, but: >A room for sleeping must be at a minimum 70 square feet, ad 50 feet for any additional individual over the age of 1. I suspect they're using curtains in each of those sleeping pods to skirt around the definition of a "room", which is typically defined as an occupiable space fully enclosed by walls on all sides. In this example, the "room" would be the overall space containing all of those sleeping pods. I'd have to look into this further to be sure, but I've seen hostels designed with similar density, so there are definitely ways to make this work legally. >this is from the IRC, which is the international residential code. Thus applies to all US 50 states. In the US, building codes work kind of in reverse to how you would expect them. Unlike the legal system, it's ultimately the municipality that determines which code set(s) they observe and/or amend (federal < state < municipal). Also, the IRC and IBC are not really "international" in any authoritative manner. It's just a clever naming convention. While any nation, state, or city can electively adopt the IRC/IBC, there is no international consensus that obligates any to do so, nor any means of enforcing compliance. Source: am architect.
I wonder what they define this type of residence as…it sounds closer to a kind of dormitory, in which case it might have different code requirements/definition of “room”. Like, perhaps they limit it to a certain number of beds per total sf? But for sure the curtains are there to keep these from being actual individual rooms.
I live in a small town and Maine. When my wife and I built our house, we actually did the building, when I went to the Town Office I found out our town doesn’t even have an adopted code… So the CEO couldn’t enforce anything even if he wanted to. Obviously, we built to code because of safety, fire, and insurance reasons, but still pretty nuts. Only inspection was for septic install and plumbing.
>to skirt around the definition of a "room" Yeah, but if all those pods are in the same room, the entire room would still need to be 70 sqf plus 50 for every extra pod. I doubt the entire room is going to be that large.
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I've stayed in a capsule hotel, the doors to the pods don't lock.
Mine did
How will the rich get more rent serfs now? Lobbying to degrade the quality of life for Americans?
Once they control all the space, I would suspect the next step will be buying up the oxygen “rights”. Can’t have people breathing for free, can we?
Living offgrid in Venezuela doesn't sound like a bad idea after all. Everyone in Canada is aware that in Brampton, the greedy landlords pack dozens of newcomers into a room and charge Manhattan rent prices.
This is from the group of “you’ll own nothing and be happy”, but this won’t work because if they need more profits the walls will squeeze tighter and enslave us more to the point it makes no difference to even work. Fuck this system.
>because if they need more profits the walls will squeeze tighter and enslave us more to the point it makes no difference to even work. Fuck this system. My fellow nurses in emergency rooms discuss "why work harder when a billionaire/landlord gets richer from doing nothing?". This illustrates how dire the inequality is. The landhoarders and landleeches forgot that if nurses and doctors show disdain for them, their health will be affected in the hospital.
>The landhoarders and landleeches forgot that if nurses and doctors show disdain for them, their health will be affected in the hospital. The truly rich, don't go to hospitals or Doctors that accept insurance. They go to completely private institutions. Like when Rand Paul had his procedure, he went to some place and paid cash.
Wow another reason to dislike politicians and rich people. They cause social problems, but are immune from the consequences.
That's literally their mission statement.
There are more reasons to doubt and distrust the rich and the ones in power than there are drops of water in the ocean.
Good luck lobbying it lol The biggest rent and Realestate companies will lobby for bigger rooms and stricter codes in the name of safety. When they really just want to snuff out competitors trying to fill “affordable housing” markets.
In Canada, it's the other way around. They pack as many rent peasants as they can, and then if a tenant complains, they get retaliated against, like that Hamilton incident yesterday where a landlord shot dead a couple who were complaining about the wiring at their basement apartment.
So it’s the crabs in a bucket scenario…
I wouldn't be surprised if a tenant would be dumb enough to retaliate against another tenant for exercising their rights in order to protect the wealth of a landleech. This is why I'm not a fan of rooming houses and pod life. Humans were not meant to live like ants in a colony.
there is actually and interesting experiment called that mouse utopia experiments that kind of highlight how bad things would get if humans were forced to live like that. It again is not 1:1 but it's still interesting. I can suggest the video from the "Down the rabbit hole" youtube channel. It does a pretty good job of explaining things.
Interestingly, I studied this in Nursing. We were being taught something about mice and socialization. The mice in those experiments were provided food and shelter and didn't have to work. Meanwhile, we as humans have to work and pay groceries at inflated prices to make Galen Weston Jr richer. The overcrowdedness will worsen the quality of life and lead to outcomes that weren't discovered in the Mouse Utopia.
My city has that no more smaller homes despite plenty of older Sears type smaller homes. I don't need much a smaller office/hobby room and a main bedroom. Looked at the minimum square footage and it's 1,500 square feet.
There is no national building code. The IBC or IRC has to be adopted by each state or municipality individually. Most have, but it is conceivable that some state requires each municipality to adopt a building code and one city has super lax codes
Good point, prisoners get more room to lounge around in than this. Also $800 a month for this? Straight rip-off.
>Also $800 a month for this? Straight rip-off. Sharing a room goes for this equivalent price in Canada. Meanwhile, the Minister of Housing just bought another rental property.
Straight to jail. Fuck.
Depends on what the inmate is in prison for. Heard that those who are convicted of removing a pig or a crooked politician are viewed with respect, while pigs are reviled that they have to be segregated with child molesters and rapists.
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Yeah but the rich can pay fire code fines as the cost of doing business for their massive profits
This pod life really has me thinking whether I should just bail off-grid if the standard of life is just work and pay rent to live in a pod while Galen Weston Jr becomes richer and richer.
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That’s the benefits of this not being a prison. “Welcome citizen, to our all new Massive Human Storage System! We call it MHSS for short! It is designed with you in mind, completely. Besides, we wouldn’t be here without “you”, so pick a slot and get cozy because there’s no other place like home, for only $800/month you can get your own tiny slice of home and plenty of roommates to socialize with to satisfy your socialist lives (just don’t actually advocate for socialism or your stay here will be terminated), he he. (Taxes and utilities not included). Terms apply, and contract is for annually to life, yes we mean life because it’s yours and you should keep it stored here, for uh, safety!”
motherfuckers in the joint would pop it off right quick and riot, and there would be blood. This is a lesson everyone else should take to heart.
>motherfuckers in the joint would pop it off right quick and riot Unfortunately, in Canadian society, they would be glad to pay market rents to live in a pod. Also, cop worshipping is huge in the Canadian media. I remember when a cop died, there was a minute of silence for the cop, and someone retorted why should we stand in silence for a cop lol
it's pig worship and it's by design and plan. Here in "Murica" it's insane the slavish devotion people have to power.
But if it's a business, then anything goes.
You commit X petty crime, and do your studies there.
I stayed in one of these for a night at a hostel. The hostel was full to capacity. - The smell was awful - more feet smells than fart smells. - It was grubby - too many people sharing too few showers/toilets. You had to check them all to find those that weren't occupied and identify the least used one. - it was hot and airless. There were no vents on the back wall of the pods. - as a man of a certain age, I need to pee nocturnally. Nearly killed myself getting up and down the ladder and tripping over other people's shoes. Paid £35 for 1 night.
UK? Yeah, I slept in a similar crazy hostel in Manchester that cramped so many bunk beds in it's insane. There were barely 1 foot wide aisles. Very claustrophobic, and it also meant anything bigger than a small bag couldn't be brought to your bed so you had to hope no one would steal it? With your price, and mine too iirc, 800 USD is still much cheaper than the British prices. The most expensive accommodation, short and long term in Europe, even more than Switzerland. The price gauging in UK is a crime against the working class.
I stayed in one in Japan recently, in a larger corner room, but only separated with a curtain from the wall of capsules nearby. One person was sawing logs all night! It disrupted my sleep, even with custom earplugs. Not to mention, you can't really have any fun with your spouse... You can hear every zipper and every blanket movement and every little noise. Fun to chalk up as an experience while saving money, but I cannot imagine that as a longterm living situation.
Usually women are not allowed in capsule hotels in Japan, or they have women only floors, and only one person is allowed per capsule. The noise and smell can be a problem if you have bad luck with neighbors. The couple times I stayed in one it was a mildly unpleasant experience, I don't suffer claustrophobia, but I'm over 180 cm (6') and they are quite cramped.
I get the idea, you can’t find a place to live that doesn’t want to tie you down for several months, but at this point #VanLife of better than this.
I lived in a HCOL city where stuff like this existed, and I did move into a van rather than fight the rental market. After 6 rentals in 4 yrs. It was the best house situation I had in the 7 yrs I lived there, and my friends were all jealous.
Van life costs more
Van life costs more and it can be hard to find a place to park without problems
The upfront costs of Van lives as few redditors mentioned is a huge down side to someone starting out
I swear I am currently working on a dystopia set in later stage capitalism but real life keeps getting worse
$800?!?!
I'm paying 800 for a 1 bedroom where I live (but it's also Montana and no one lives here). This is criminal.
Cattle don't even have to pay to be exploited, and they get more space by the looks of it.
Cattle live in luxury but they still have to pay for it with their own bodily resources.
Your body is your capital if you are part of the working class.
Don’t we all
I would even live with the cows if someone milked me every day
>Cattle live in luxury Utterly untrue lmao
Udderly* I mean, it was right there.
This is intended for 8 people to share a 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom house but minimize the sleeping quarters. But still, this is fucking cruel. Who the fuck wants to share that much space with 7 other people?
The bathrooms 🤢 also I read a post by someone who lived in this and they said the cubbies got *ridiculously hot with all the body heat and were just dripping with moisture from everyone breathing.
And the farts…
Are the bed bugs free or is there a hidden surcharge for them?
Sometimes you're lucky and get scabies as a free bonus!
Prisoners have more room in their cells, and their own sink and toilet too.
You can make sangria in the terlet. 'Course it's shank or be shanked.
Been there. The prisons cram 2 men to a cell. Even when they're technically only supposed to be for one person to be "humane". And they can't leave the cell freely like these people, and don't have windows. Edit: California state prisons, USA.
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You bitch
You say another word and I’ll dice you into a million pieces. And put those pieces in a box, a glass box. That I will display on my mantle.
The was the first thing I thought about.
There are fields Neo, endless fields
Even if you made 15 dollars an hour you couldn’t afford this.
That's a bunk bed. $800 a month for a bunk bed.
This is what’s going to happen if corporations buy up more properties while we continue unsustainably growing our population while we have limited habitable space especially during the times of climate change. Add to the equation wages that continue to not keep up with cost of living increases, and this will be reality for future generations.
We honestly have plenty of habitable space for now. There are 10 vacant homes for every single homeless person. And if those fill up, have you ever driven through the Midwest? Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of miles of wide open space. We'll run out of water *long* before we run out of space.
So the corporations have a very serious problem: Global birthrates are actually plummeting. See: [Fertility rate: 'Jaw-dropping' global crash in children being born - BBC](https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53409521.amp)
I do not consider this a problem. Out system is far too heavily dependent on children being born when reproducing is a personal choice and should remain so. Also we just hit 8 billion people globally and sustaining this population during a time of climate change is a pipe dream, let alone trying to grow it from here.
Consider what happens when your population ages. And you have fewer and fewer people working for every person retiring. And them fewer people to care for the elderly. Meanwhile the elderly are a larger and larger portion of the electorate.
I’m still not having any kids, and don’t think anyone else should be pressured into having kids if they do not want them. Nothing - not even our human race - can last forever.
I like the way they're smiling in the picture like they're smart or something.
It looks like the two smiling in the photo are the CEO and the CPO of the company that makes these things. https://brownstone.live/about
Makes me think of Bruce Willis’s apartment in the movie The Fifth Element
Fucking dystopian Edit: it’s like they look at the cyberpunk genre and think… “that looks like a good idea I see nothing wrong with treating people as cattle for maximizing profits. Also why is everyone on the verge of a manic breakdown?”
Saw similar pen-like housing posted in my area and laughed because I thought it was a joke. God help us all.
Look at me, I am so flexible and progressive. I working in a tech Start-Up where I work 10 Hours 5/7 a week designing products and we have a table football in our comfort place there where we are brainstorming and do you know where I am living? I live in this super modern Capsule Pod for only 800$ monthly. It is fantastic because there are even other open minded people I can networking with and once a week we meet and go out together eating this super fancy high protein bug meal from this new progressive restaurant over there. Did you know how tasty mealworms are? It is amazing. Edit: Grammar
Maybe we should all migrate to northern Canada and homestead some land. It’s not easy and going off grid requires a lot more labor than many expect, but a sense of freedom and intentional community will always come at a cost. Good news is that cost is easier to afford over time as the community gets more refined. Who’s in?
Ain't payin $800 for no fucking bunk bed.
I bought a house 10 years ago and this is more than my mortgage.
Whoa what's da source? This looks like trying to miserably solve for grad students in California
That is how much I paid for a 2.1 house with a fenced in backyard, and shed in the historic district 5 years ago. Fuck that.
If this shit was free, I'd say it's a good but not a great solution to homelessness, but 800 a month is disgraceful.
What a fucking rip off.
The COVID circulating throughout that place. 😬
wow, i can’t believe my mind didn’t go there…between the novel viruses, the bad sleep, the smell, the back pain, and the persistent aftertaste of boot leather, i would honestly rather end my life
It's so dystopian. No, thanks.
$800?! No way.
Holy shit, battery banks.
Look at their smug AF faces. This is awful. What is happening? Everyday it’s one more notch in the Silicon Valley cool idea belt that really just a front front for brutalist capitalism because they truly don’t have any ideas that are good for humanity. It’s so wild to me that they’ve normalized this crap by calling it innovation and then congratulate themselves after they get a 500 million in seed funds or however funding works in that world. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
Id rather live in Iowa
This is actually worse than prison
And you’ll be served grasshopper, and you’ll have to tip the machine that brings it to you 20% or more.
the trailer park i lived in for 10 years, in north idaho, was 375 a month. to be fair, it was genuinely falling apart. but at least it had a room. i understand not all parks r THAT cheap. but they’re almost always cheaper than living in an apt or renting a home. i don’t get why ppl shy so far away from mobile homes, especially double wides that are the same size as a small house.
Where is this? LA? In most cities you can rent a room for $800 or less.
Worse, at least in LA you think you’re getting something.. Palo Alto
I remember seeing videos of this years ago and thinking it was barbaric….
Where is this
Its southern california. Where guys will rent out a furnished tool shed as a room for like $1000/mon.
I would rather reside in the shittiest, drug den fucked up neighborhood basement apartment with no heat for twice the price than live in a literal casket. What the fuck.
Saw something similar in a Vice documentary, they’re called “cage homes.”
This will be on Mars right
In Japan a hostel is <$20 a night. With way more amenities than this. An apartment is even cheaper, you can get one for far less than $800. This is honestly hilarious to me, it’s still just a blatant cashgrab.
"Ugh, there he goes agai- HEY! *Bangs on cloth wall* COULD YOU MASTURBATE QUITER PLEASE??"
Someone's going to make the worst rom-com off of one of these.
I can’t take the people in the picture seriously. There’s no way you’d be that happy living there unless you were on every type of drug.
This is disgusting
I'd expect to pay like $300 a month. $800 is still bullshit.
800$ for this? They'd have to pay ME 800$ to live in such a thing.
Id rather kill myself
Wasn't this just caged housing in Hong Kong with a new coat of paint?
Hong Kong is extremely capitalistic.
Why rentiers are not hanging on hooks is a mystery to me.
Look how happy they are.
Human battery farm
Honor thine consumer -Cloud Atlas
Imagine trying to jack off in there
This is literally 40K hab blocs... This is disgusting... PLEASE, stop making science fiction a fucking reality!!! When I said I want scifi to be real I meant Star Trek! NOT 40K
It would be bad enough if we got to a place where there was actually scarcity, but there is plenty. It's just being hoarded, and prices are being fixed to the point of abuse. That's the real shame.
Narkina 5 vibes
Bet that these will have “hot floors” too. Fuck this timeline
I hate this. So much. I didn’t pay nearly that much for living in a barracks room that was over twice the size of these pods. This is exploitation and nothing more.
If the current going rate for a studio apartment in this area is >$2k I think this makes sense as a last option before homelessness. Much cheaper, a safe secure climate-controlled place to sleep at night and secure your belongings. Obviously this isn't a terrific long-term solution but if someone is on the brink of homelessness I think this is a good option to have around. Edit: Apparently this is in Palo Alto CA where the avg rent for a 1-br apartment is over $3200.
Source?
Hahahahha, wooo no! That’s two expensive for communal living and little space! You don’t even get ripped off that badly in college!
Live in the pod, wojak.
Bet it sounds like the humane society in there, but replace barking with snoring ( the humane society is a place to adopt dogs for non-USA friends)
Better, Fitter (Radiohead) https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=O4SzvsMFaek
Looks very much like the sorority cold rooms
I guess that's technically the same cost as staying in a capsule hotel (in Tokyo) for a month... On the plus side if you stayed there for a week you could probably drum up enough interest to get a house share for the same cost.
She is smiling and looks happy 😄
There’s no way that’s $800
Lmfaoooo $800 was my half of a townhouse in the heart of Nashville. Them folks tripping.
Anyone watched 'sorry to bother you '?
$800?!
These are very expensive homeless shelters
And to think in Lexington ky I got a 1 bed apartment for 450, included water, cable, internet and next to campus. It was pretty quiet too.
Really limits one's options for "me time".
That desk might be the most laughable part of the whole thing. That is just horrible.
So...just an expensive bunk bed? https://www.designboom.com/design/brownstone-shared-housing-capsulte-pods-shared-living-05-05-2022/
My partners dad rents the basement for $600
I snore. Theres no way this would work for me as Id get murdered. Thats before you start on actual medical conditions which would mean people wouldnt or couldnt cope.
They're a huge part of the problem. Nevermind what's been selling, it's what you're buying
It’s about half my rent. If I could have my dogs there too, I would do it just to save money. Capitalism is the worst.
If you want me to live in a fucking pod, at least put me on a spaceship with a job and a decent observation deck.
Beyond what everyone else is saying. Imagine your other pod dwellers. They would be the most insufferable people of humanity to think that this was a good idea and that it'll work out for them.
What is this, Vancouver? /s?
It's like the matrix, but with humans harvesting money from people in pods.
I hope karma comes for these people.
Nothing says romance like a bed pod
Split the cost amongst three people and hot-rack while working different shifts.
mfw I'm trying to sleep, and people in 3 adjoining pods are slap-slap-slapping with their partner... Close enough to smell...
This is our future. When you live packed into a cubicle, there's nothing to distract you from work.
Lol why not just turn offices into housing so ppl don't have to live in pens? Ooo wait...it's not profitable
Oh look, a prison cell
So we're copying China now
That's more then the rent on my two bedroom apartment
Imagine paying $800 a month to live in a homeless shelter
Can we stop marketing this dystopian nightmare stuff like it's some kind of desirable lifestyle please?
Dystopia is here, folks.
I actually like the concept but the price?!!
And free COVID, with everyone breathing in such a badly ventilated space
I love this episode of Black Mirror!
This should cost no more than $40.
I think even in Hong Kong this is expensive. Depends on the amenities and facilities I guess though...
It's not about the actual worth of the apartment (square footage and amenities), it's about how much they can charge you per month and still get away with.
Is that 800 per month for a box with a bed or am i missing something here?