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In Pod-Based Community Living, Rent Is Cheap, but Sex Is Banned
- angersock 11y agoThe video ( https://youtu.be/N6bVPutR_5E https://youtu.be/N6bVPutR_5E ) is oddly amazing yet cringe-inducing. I also can't quite place the accent of the young lady presenting. Also, this whole thing looks like something out of a novel by William Gibson--or Upton Sinclair. :(
- pink_dinner 11y agoIt sounds almost like the communes in the late 60s and early 70s, minus the sex. I ran a meetup for around 5 years. Having many random people and different personalities come into the group caused lots of drama and issues. It's kind of a microcosm for life. You have most people that simply want to go with the flow and be part of the group and a select few amount of people that constantly battle for dominance and are extremely aggressive (most of which had to be forcibly kicked out). These problems will be amplified since everyone is sleeping in the same area. I don't think I would ever want to be part of this pod-based community. Personally, it sounds like a nightmare.
- ChuckMcM 11y agoInteresting concept. Something between a Hostel and a transient hotel. It certainly looks like a viable "between" things kind of place, but I doubt these facilities age well. After 15 or 20 years you probably end up with something like the Hong Kong cage apartments. One wonders too if people are settling for too little. One of the great motivators of the labor strikes was that people were unwilling to settle for wages that wouldn't pay their living expenses.
- angersock 11y agoFor anyone (like me) to whom that term was unfamiliar: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2275206/Hong-Kongs-metal-cage-homes-How-tens-thousands-live-6ft-2ft-rabbit-hutches.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2275206/Hong-Kongs-m...