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Luxury apartments will always exist, no need to worry about that. But plenty of people don't really need those things, and certainly don't want to pay for them.

• Arizhel 10y ago
  >But plenty of people don't really need those things, and certainly don't want to pay for them. Those things don't cost very much when they're shared by a couple hundred units. That's why non-luxury hotels can afford to have such amenities for rather cheap nightly prices. A gym, in particular, is dirt cheap: ~5 exercise machines at even $1k apiece (a high estimate) is still only $5k, which is roughly a month's pay for many people. Spread that one-time cost over 200 units and that's $25 per unit. You can probably expect those machines to last at least 5 years, so that's $5 per year per unit. Whoopee. Definitely not "luxury", unless you're used to 3rd-world living conditions.