What I think is interesting about this article is that, if we saw this back in 2016, it would have been interpreted by the HN community in a more positive light

What I think is interesting about this article is that, if we saw this back in 2016, it would have been interpreted by the HN community in a more positive light. I say this because it used to be a sort of fantasy by some of us that they could get rich in Silicon Valley by renting a bunk, taking Uber instead of owning a car, eschewing privacy in favor of more convenient app experiences, work out of coworking spaces, and overall live in "the future". With the decline of big cities and people waking up to the reality of globalism, I guess I shouldn't be surprised at how skeptical we've become of such propaganda, yet I still find it surprising. The irony of this vision of the future is that, in order to rent, someone must own. This means that if there ever cam a point where even 25% of the population lived in a fully-rented state of being, a significant portion of the population will have been made into serfs and lords. Of course, we do already have a large degree of this dynamic. It's quite different from the vision of the future we had hundreds of years ago; the one where we imagined everyone being able to develop their own independent fiefdoms within a society.