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Japanese are known to think very long term as well

by akudha 5y ago

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ceejayoz 5y ago
Housing is a big exception to this. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/nov/16/japan-reusable-housing-revolution https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/nov/16/japan-reusabl... > Unlike in other countries, Japanese homes gradually depreciate over time, becoming completely valueless within 20 or 30 years. When someone moves out of a home or dies, the house, unlike the land it sits on, has no resale value and is typically demolished. This scrap-and-build approach is a quirk of the Japanese housing market that can be explained variously by low-quality construction to quickly meet demand after the second world war, repeated building code revisions to improve earthquake resilience and a cycle of poor maintenance due to the lack of any incentive to make homes marketable for resale.
- lotsofpulp 5y ago
  I do not think that is incongruent to thinking long term. Creating unnecessarily resilient buildings is a misallocation or resources and a problem if it’s own. If you think there will be volatility in the long term, then investing in flexibility is the right long term play.
  - bluGill 5y ago
    What is the right term? I think Japan has gone too far, but on the other hand I've also seen what the rich lived in 2000 years ago - I prefer the apartments the poor in the US live in today. (note that I'm excluding poor in other countries and poor that can't get into an apartment for whatever reason - these groups have worse situations than the above) Even houses built 120 years ago are things I'm not sure I'd want. Since then we have go indoor plumbing and electric. We are fortunate that modern AC is mostly easy to retrofit into the common forced air furnace systems of the past. I've faced the pain of running cat-3 network cables into houses I've lived in (I just missed rg-58), now I question if cat-5 cables are worth replacing. I have no idea what will change about houses next, but I suspect my house of the future will need changes that don't fit well with the house of today.

Japanese are known to think very long term as well

by akudha 5y ago

Japanese are known to think very long term as well

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ceejayoz 5y ago

Housing is a big exception to this. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/nov/16/japan-reusable-housing-revolution https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/nov/16/japan-reusabl... > Unlike in other countries, Japanese homes gradually depreciate over time, becoming completely valueless within 20 or 30 years. When someone moves out of a home or dies, the house, unlike the land it sits on, has no resale value and is typically demolished. This scrap-and-build approach is a quirk of the Japanese housing market that can be explained variously by low-quality construction to quickly meet demand after the second world war, repeated building code revisions to improve earthquake resilience and a cycle of poor maintenance due to the lack of any incentive to make homes marketable for resale.

lotsofpulp 5y ago
I do not think that is incongruent to thinking long term. Creating unnecessarily resilient buildings is a misallocation or resources and a problem if it’s own. If you think there will be volatility in the long term, then investing in flexibility is the right long term play.
- bluGill 5y ago
  What is the right term? I think Japan has gone too far, but on the other hand I've also seen what the rich lived in 2000 years ago - I prefer the apartments the poor in the US live in today. (note that I'm excluding poor in other countries and poor that can't get into an apartment for whatever reason - these groups have worse situations than the above) Even houses built 120 years ago are things I'm not sure I'd want. Since then we have go indoor plumbing and electric. We are fortunate that modern AC is mostly easy to retrofit into the common forced air furnace systems of the past. I've faced the pain of running cat-3 network cables into houses I've lived in (I just missed rg-58), now I question if cat-5 cables are worth replacing. I have no idea what will change about houses next, but I suspect my house of the future will need changes that don't fit well with the house of today.