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Have you seen the millions that live in worse conditions (in the US alone), despite empty housing dwarfing those numbers? Just saying: yes, this is bullshit, but I help shake the feeling that this is what comes from showing corporate America that we, as a people, don’t give enough fucks for the latter, so they can more easily get away with this… for even more profit.
In essence, it’s symptomatic of the whole “As long as it’s not me” mentality.
They’ll keep getting worse, so long as we never raze Wall Street to the ground as we should.
Don’t worry though, this country could legalize and mandate productivity shock collars on everyone with less than a million in net worth, and we wouldn’t do shit. We’re every bit as complacent, flaccid, feckless, cowardly, and subservient as our owners believe us to be. Their propaganda infecting everything from education to media for decades has seen to that. We trust the invisible hand of the free market round here, boy I tell you what.
We don’t want to disturb the quarterly earnings of our glorious job creators or our beloved economy🌈, after all. They’ll start pissing prosperity on us any day now! ZAP so this is freedom…
I mean, that’s a ridiculous amount of space compared to when I was out to sea with the Navy…
It sounds like it’s filled with short term renters trying to get startups going. They need a place to shower and sleep while going to a lot of meetings in SF.
I don’t see an issue with that.
Now, if people were signing up to live there for a year at a time while working a full time job…
Yeah. That’s dystopian as fuck
The amount of comments defending this make me sick. No one working full time our hell part time should live in those conditions.
No one working full time our hell part time should live in those conditions.
Great, no one is!
Rather than complain about all the comments, why not read the article?
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People in the military shouldn’t live like that either. Honestly what is even the point of America being the leading world power, wastes all of it.
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Amongst the mice fighting for the few crumbs that fall from the table were the fatcats divide the cake, a few will, upon finding a slightly larger crumb, proudly raise it for all to see and shout: “See?! The System works!”
who have to live in these undesirable conditions because the cost of living has gone out of control.
No, they’re living their to sell their startup ideas, and they need a short term SF rental to do that.
If you dont like the military comparison, what about dorm rooms? Or to get less American, hostels?
How nice has your life been that this looks so horrible?
If these pods catch on,
Cats will marry dogs and it’ll rain gold doubloons!
Living in pods
At least read the article, no one is living in pods.
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I did read the article and a person who utilizes these pods spends at least 6-8 hours in them per day
But you didn’t understand it apparently…
There’s communal living spaces, the “pod” is just for sleeping.
You’re acting like they’re sealed up in there the whole time. Or you just don’t understand that people sleep 6-8 hours a day…
And you’re still acting like people are living there long term. You didn’t understand anything in the article
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But you’re still not getting it…
And I’m not trying anymore. Maybe stick to your pg13 porn sub
It’s a month to month contract. That seems to back your idea of startups.
This seems slightly more private than dorm room or bunk conditions, and we are ok having people live in those kinds of conditions.
It also seems better than being homeless.
I’m shocked that the enhanced profitability for realestate “investors” doesn’t make you feel good about this!
/s
Why don’t the pods have a door? I mean, if I am paying for it, I at least want to be able to lock it.
You can rent a door for $10/night
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You do know this announcing your votes and saying good sir is annoying and smarmy as fuck, right?
Have spaghetti bolognese, good sir.
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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! ♥
I was responding to iAmTheTot :)
i thought it would be like those japanese sleep pods but these dont even have a door 😭
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
Here’s a fun thought.
What happens to all these people living in sarcophagi (TIL that’s 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 isn’t 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 $23 and some change daily compares favorably, cost wise, with just getting a hotel room. But me – I’ll take the hotel room, thanks.
Los Angeles bases its occupancy limits on the square footage of a unit, rather than the number of bedrooms:
- One to two people for every 70–119 square feet - Three people for every 120–169 square feet - Four people for every 170–119 square feet - 50 square feet for each additional person700$ 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.
Of course the startup behind it is called “Brownstone”
Why is that significant? Is it a reference to something?
Reminiscent of blackrock maybe?
yep, blackstone, blackrock, the like
Blackstone is what I’m about to make dinner on lmao
Beats a studio in rural New Hampshire.
