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The pods are here, pod living, whats next? Eating bugs?

8 points by goindeep 4y ago

version_five 4y ago
I think some variation of this is a great idea. There are lots of reasons why people want a cheap and bare bones place to stay. Personally I would only consider something that has a locked door, but in many ways the picture looks much nicer than many of the circumstances I saw friends living in during university. If there is a demand for it, what is the problem? It is only acceptable to have a larger more expensive place? (Edit: I didn't think about the bathroom, you'd (a) want some kind of cleanliness guarantee, and (b) need a non adversarial booking mechanism to make sure you had it in the morning. 14 people using n<14 bathrooms all tryint to get to work in the morning is not for me) As for eating bugs, I (no doubt unpopular here) think forcing any kind of vegetarianism (including insects) on people is one of the few acceptable reasons to take up arms and fight back. But offering them to people that want them is cool. If you want to eat crickets and live in a pod, who has standing to tell you no?
- codefreeordie 4y ago
  The thing about the pods and the bugs isn't that choosing to eat bugs or live in pods is inherently bad or wrong -- it is about intentionally creating a world of such oppressive scarcity that all of the people who are not the inter-generational wealthy elite have no choice but to live in the pods and eat the bugs because the opportunity to do better has been destroyed. This is often summarized by restating the quote often attributed to Klaus Schwab (though it is unclear to me if Schwab ever actually said it in any context): "You will own nothing and be happy".
  - version_five 4y ago
    I think there is a difference between a world where you're stuck doing something and one where that thing is available. Your quote resonates with me, I hate the idea of e.g. not being able to own a car and having some subscription thing instead designed to maximally extract money from me. But I still think it's a good thing that subscription car sharing exists. We just need some kind of oversight (which i know is easier said than done) to prevent the world from turning into some kind of corporatized wasteland where we're essentially all matrix inhabitants that just exist for the XaaS revenue we provide. But solving that isn't helped by shutting down free enterprises.
- aaron695 4y ago

8 points by goindeep 4y ago

I think some variation of this is a great idea. There are lots of reasons why people want a cheap and bare bones place to stay. Personally I would only consider something that has a locked door, but in many ways the picture looks much nicer than many of the circumstances I saw friends living in during university. If there is a demand for it, what is the problem? It is only acceptable to have a larger more expensive place? (Edit: I didn't think about the bathroom, you'd (a) want some kind of cleanliness guarantee, and (b) need a non adversarial booking mechanism to make sure you had it in the morning. 14 people using n<14 bathrooms all tryint to get to work in the morning is not for me) As for eating bugs, I (no doubt unpopular here) think forcing any kind of vegetarianism (including insects) on people is one of the few acceptable reasons to take up arms and fight back. But offering them to people that want them is cool. If you want to eat crickets and live in a pod, who has standing to tell you no?

codefreeordie 4y ago
The thing about the pods and the bugs isn't that choosing to eat bugs or live in pods is inherently bad or wrong -- it is about intentionally creating a world of such oppressive scarcity that all of the people who are not the inter-generational wealthy elite have no choice but to live in the pods and eat the bugs because the opportunity to do better has been destroyed. This is often summarized by restating the quote often attributed to Klaus Schwab (though it is unclear to me if Schwab ever actually said it in any context): "You will own nothing and be happy".
- version_five 4y ago
  I think there is a difference between a world where you're stuck doing something and one where that thing is available. Your quote resonates with me, I hate the idea of e.g. not being able to own a car and having some subscription thing instead designed to maximally extract money from me. But I still think it's a good thing that subscription car sharing exists. We just need some kind of oversight (which i know is easier said than done) to prevent the world from turning into some kind of corporatized wasteland where we're essentially all matrix inhabitants that just exist for the XaaS revenue we provide. But solving that isn't helped by shutting down free enterprises.
aaron695 4y ago