Techies are paying $700 a month for tiny bed 'pods' in downtown San Francisco
Techies are paying $700 a month for tiny bed 'pods' in downtown San Francisco
Brownstone is renting out 'pods' for $700 a month in San Francisco's SoMa neighborhood, and techies are taking them.
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I don't feel good about this at all. People should not be living in conditions like this.
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...
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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
I updated my response.
Still getting used to Lemmy's formatting.
But you're still not getting it...
And I'm not trying anymore. Maybe stick to your pg13 porn sub
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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