Not a bad setup for an old single person either, or a married couple: it's much better than living under a bridge! Gets a little crowded as families grow, but p

Not a bad setup for an old single person either, or a married couple: it's much better than living under a bridge! Gets a little crowded as families grow, but people have made do in one-room houses (even with multigenerational families) for eons. Of course, the dorm room setup is less vulnerable to exploitation if the dorm is rented or purchased separately from one's employer, otherwise you not only risk losing wages (and, in the US, access to health insurance) but also your home if you're laid off. GP comment was obviously referring to Anatole France, who wrote sarcastically in 1894: > Cela consiste pour les pauvres à soutenir et à conserver les riches dans leur puissance et leur oisiveté. Ils y doivent travailler devant la majestueuse égalité des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain. > It is the duty of the poor to support and sustain the rich in their power and idleness. In doing so, they have to work before the laws' majestic equality, which forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.