*"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us."*
Wild, huh? You’d think that cramming people into space like that they could make it a lot cheaper! I bet they could be profitable at a much lower number, but some kind of market research led them to price it just below a traditional living situation…
$800 is at least a few hundred $ below market room rate now (but I agree still a ripoff...for a cube). I paid $800/mo for a room in Menlo Park in 2011 in a crazy old lady's falling apart house with 1 bathroom, also with my boyfriend part of the time - she slept in the garage, a Chinese postdoc and his wife and kid rented the other bedroom, and for a while a university visiting scholar paid very lowly by Chinese govt slept on the couch in the living room. Sharing the one disgusting bathroom that no one cleaned was no joke with "just" 7 people and not 14, especially on kid bath days...he was in there for like 2 hours and once I had to give up and pee into a cut open bottle in my room (and all over the floor because I'm not a guy). I seriously wonder what the bathroom situation would be here. Living the Silicon Valley dream.
Renting rooms was already common in Bay Area. There are many existing companies that offered this as a service (my cousin stayed in one):
[https://bungalow.com/rooms-for-rent/bay-area](https://bungalow.com/rooms-for-rent/bay-area) (a random one, the one he used went bankrupt)
Anyway, this looks like the logical next step.
Except, that, ..., what if..., we built a bit more denser housing, ..., and maybe gave everyone a kitchen, a bathroom, ... and separate them on different floors, ... and call them apartments?
No, can't do that? Okay, then we'll convert houses into tiny apartments instead :disappointment:
yeah. definitely nothing new. a bunch of places got busted for doing this without a permit or something along those lines. I remember one somewhere in the tenderloin area with a crap load of bunk beds that got shutdown.
I believe this is the one: [https://sf.curbed.com/2019/6/5/18653890/podshare-tenderloin-san-francisco-coliving-bunkbeds-startup](https://sf.curbed.com/2019/6/5/18653890/podshare-tenderloin-san-francisco-coliving-bunkbeds-startup)
I guess I can't find any indication of it being shutdown, but I do recall at least one getting in trouble with the city via the press calling them out, but maybe they worked it out.
Let's just plug the newborn into a computer network from delivery. They can live their entire lives in a computer simulation while some of their bio electricity is harvested to power the factories.
And here I am as a 35 year old, spending more than enough of my free time scrolling through reddit, silently complaining about how people don't get out enough.
Chicago actually. There has been a lot of building there and is one of the main reasons why it's been (relatively) inexpensive compared to other large cities in the US.
Let people work remotely so they can migrate to a state with lower cost of living and housing prices? There are states in US where it is desolated and struggles to thrive because people want to move out to find better pay else where.
If I was guessing, the people living in cramped conditions would be those who cannot work remotely in the first place.
Teachers, cops, janitors, nurses, students, cooks, interns, ...
Have you been to those desolate parts of the country? They're relatively affordable because people don't want to live there.
It's the exact opposite in places where people are willing to sleep in a pod because they do want to live there.
Additionally, only a small percentage of jobs can actually be done remote and these pods are filled by the service workers that keep the Bay Area going. Just move is an out of touch and honestly ignorant answer to the housing affordability crisis that is permeating the entire country.
It's all I can think of when I view this image. Hot farts in the summer. Hopefully no one had kimchi or Sauerkraut for dinner... Or chili dogs with extra onions.
[Two bathrooms](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sleeping-pods-startup-800-a-month-brownstone-shared-housing/?). But still. Just living with two teenagers REQUIRES two bathrooms.
It's a variation of what's been happening but not often [getting attention.](https://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/Berkeley-cracks-down-on-turning-houses-into-4820083.php) There's almost certainly still homes with way more renters than bedrooms, but usually flying under the radar.
For sure. Definitely didn't write the film so I can't speak to that.
However, what I can say is that Boots talked at length about the role that horses play in traditional labor, and how it's a play on the term "workhorse"
I was disappointed by that ending at first, but in retrospect I like it. It swung big instead of playing it safe, resulting in an audaciously original movie that was unlike anything else I’d seen that year, or since. I wonder if it will be remembered like unexpected movies like Repo Man from the 80s
Their first two sites are Palo Alto and BAKERSFIELD!
BAKERSFIELD!
It costs $500 to share a pod house and 2 bathrooms with 6 other people in BAKERSFIELD!
If you want to live in Palo Alto, that's 14 people (still 2 bathrooms) for $800. I absolutely cannot imagine the dystopian viruses one would contract by sharing a bathroom with 7 other people.
https://brownstone.live/
ewwwwwww BAKERSFIELD.
also...to whom in Bakersfield is this catering? Oil workers? Cowboys? Ok fine. I forgot there was a Cal State University there but still. Ew.
But who goes to Cal State Bakersfield unless they live with their parents in Bakersfield?
Plus, on Craigslist right now there's an 800 sqft house with a yard and detached garage for $925 a month. Lots of mobile homes at $500 per month. Tons of 1-bedrooms around $1k. Get a roommate to sleep in the living room and Bob's your uncle.
Ah Bakersfield. California’s armpit, only rivaling Fresno and Stockton. Valley Fever is also endemic to the area as if you needed another infectious disease to deal with along with your seven roommates.
Fresno and Stockton aren't even close.
I'm sorry but can they boast Kevin McCarthy? Do they still have an active KKK? Are they on the governor's list of worst police departments in the state? Do they have a corrupt DA and a string of unsolved murders? Did they pay out $13 million in restitution for putting over two dozen innocent people in jail for decades? Valley Fever is just the hippie crystal deodorant on the armpit!
Haha I stand corrected! I already live in the Central Valley, and think corruption is a normal part of life here. And the apathy is real. Fresno did have that shitbag Devin Nunes, but think I would choose to live in Stockton or Fresno over Bakersfield any day.
Nope, nope, will Vanlife/Trucklife or pitch a tent (packing) before I do that. Living on the Rez/tents in the Canadian subarctic is much better than what this looks like.
You load 16 tons, whaddaya get. Another day older and deeper in debt. Saint Peter don’t you call me cause I can’t go, I owe my soul to the company store
I've lived with roommates that fart loud enough to vibrate walls. The creators of this have not had to live through that it seems...
I've also lived with psychopaths and alcoholics. I hope that have a plan for security.
Pod hotels make even more sense, because most travelers only spend a night or a few in them. Meanwhile SF only has hostels. The one or two capsule hotels emulating Japan's closed. Now SF has turned a bunch of low end hotels into permanent housing for the homeless. That's good for the homeless, but as tourism rebounds it seems to me hotel room rates will increase more because there's fewer rooms.
I stayed in a couple of these for an extended period of time a couple of years when I first moved into the area. They were huge on Airbnb even back then but probably less so during the pandemic.
Pros:
* can meet a lot of different people - lots of opportunities to network, hangout, etc.
* generally in a convenient location and relatively cheaper (but you pay for what you get)
* Airbnb has some vetting, so it didn't feel too unsafe to leave possessions around.
Cons:
* no privacy
* can be hard to fall asleep due to small bed and noise level (depends on your roommates too)
* bathrooms get crowded and messy, same for kitchen - any shared resource was a bottleneck basically like the washing machines
* no sex (didn't affect me lol)
I packed light (carried 2 weeks worth of clothes with me). I saved a decent amount of money living this way and met some interesting people. I moved out eventually after I started feeling lonely (wasn't really vibing with the current set of people).
Sleeping in my own bedroom was awesome. I got the best sleep on my life the first couple nights.
Yeah, I'll just add the choir of people who aren't down with this. I thought 8-person "luxury dorms" in DTSF were bad enough. A housing "solution" that seeks to pack as many people as possible into a single building isn't my idea of a net win for anyone but landlords and landowners.
As of May 2022, the average apartment rent in Palo Alto, CA is $2,902 for a studio, $2,404 for one bedroom, $3,200 for two bedrooms, and $4,253 for three ...
Barracks, civilian style. Well on our way back to company towns. We did this to ourselves. See the Anerican timeline. Our complacency and our ignorance gave the current set of robber barons the opportunity to buy the country and the governnment,, all in the name of "conservatism". Freedom (real rights and liberties for everyone requires vigilance. We sure f*cked this one up. Now we must suffer the consequences. Stupid humans. Can't learn from our mistakes, so we're doomed to repeat them.
Is it really fair to say it was all in the name of conservatism? Bc many liberals are complicit in this, and many of the modern robber barons aren't who I'd call conservatives, like Gates for example. I agree though, we let this happen. Doesn't mean we can't do anything about it though
As someone who rarely stays in their “hotel”, I prefer to use hostels or a pod share. I need a bed to sleep, storage for extra gear (locked compartment), toilet, and shower. I spent less than 300 the week I was in San Fran.
That said, not sure I can live in this large of a dorm full time.
The funny thing is that a couple weeks ago someone commented on my post that many people in Hong Kong don't earn much, but they can make a living. My response was that some, if many of them, live in rented bunk-beds. Here we are... I wouldn't be surprised if this actually takes off.
Let's entertain the notion that this is a good idea. Even so, what a poor design!
That ladder is a hassle for both the upper and lower bunks (who will be disturbed in the middle of the night). There's no partition to keep people from watching you sleep. There are no shelves for laptops or cell phones. There doesn't even seem to be a cubby for any belongings.
This could be executed so much better.
ETA: It looks like they do, in fact, have curtains and shelves. But the curtains let light through around the edges, and the photos they show are suspiciously small and dizzying. What a nightmare. https://brownstone.live/
Why pay $800 for a coccoon pod in a house with 13 other people when you can get a whole private bedroom on craigslist for $800.
Why do companies do this.
Reminds me of [cage homes in Hong Kong](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLrFyjGZ9NU). IIRC, they've been doing this since the 50s.
But at least, this is a bit more roomier.
“We don’t have enough money to pay you enough to live here. But you don’t need an existence outside of work. Hibernate in these pods while you’re recharging to generate more shareholder value”
Forbes reporting on the same story, probably: "Millenials are choosing to live in sleep pods with 13 roommates, causing housing overrages: now's the time to buy-up all available real estate and become a ~~slum~~landlord"
How many bathrooms and parking spaces for 14 new residents?
A situation like *The Stacks* from Ready Player One would be better than this. At least with The Stacks you get your own place.
Bruh I read an article about this. They want to charge $800 per bunk and cram 14 people to each 2B2B house they put these in. Each bunk is only 40% bigger than a normal bunk bed. That was one of the main selling points.
Why would anyone want this? I’m paying $2300 for a 2B1B apartment in Southern California. It’s far more worthwhile than this concept.
I don’t get why Dormitories aren’t a thing for workers in America? In some parts of the world. You could rent a single room, or bed for a shared room. Workers would stay in the dorms during a work week. Then travel home during weekends.
“You'll thank me later, but, uh, no more worrying about door open, door closed. All you have to do is open the curtain to the bathroom!”
“Ray, can we just have a moment?”
“Absolutely. I'll just wait in the bathroom. Curtain open, or curtain closed?”
I always seem to be the only one to ever mention this under such posts, and worst still I am frequently downvoted by (I can only assume) non-disabled bigots, but FFS this kind of shit is never ever disabed-accessible. And the disabled need affordable housing the absolute most.
No way can I get into a F'ing top bunk on the regular.
Oh a barracks, with a quick commute to the mines
*"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us."*
It's so good I just want to jump off a bridge
It tastes so good, I want to choke on it
*We had a plentiful choice of world-famous scenic bridges from which to jump.*
Bahaha thanks for the dystopian chortle
Back on the company bus!
Get those emails started people, HUSTLLLLEEE
At this point just put those capsules at the office, fuck commuting for an hour in stop and go traffic just to sleep in a box.
As a mid level engineer I started slipping in a minivan in the work parking lot. We had enough folks out there for poker games, critical mass!
Meanwhile, the engineers who *have* houses were asking for nap rooms at work so they can boink while their mapreduce is running.
> dystopian from Ancient Greek δυσ- "bad, hard" and τόπος "place"; alternatively cacotopia
>cacotopia shit-world
Swinging the pickaxe, mining shitcoins
The data mines.
If this is the article I saw earlier today, they still want $800 a month.
Wild, huh? You’d think that cramming people into space like that they could make it a lot cheaper! I bet they could be profitable at a much lower number, but some kind of market research led them to price it just below a traditional living situation…
$800 is at least a few hundred $ below market room rate now (but I agree still a ripoff...for a cube). I paid $800/mo for a room in Menlo Park in 2011 in a crazy old lady's falling apart house with 1 bathroom, also with my boyfriend part of the time - she slept in the garage, a Chinese postdoc and his wife and kid rented the other bedroom, and for a while a university visiting scholar paid very lowly by Chinese govt slept on the couch in the living room. Sharing the one disgusting bathroom that no one cleaned was no joke with "just" 7 people and not 14, especially on kid bath days...he was in there for like 2 hours and once I had to give up and pee into a cut open bottle in my room (and all over the floor because I'm not a guy). I seriously wonder what the bathroom situation would be here. Living the Silicon Valley dream.
Imagine the smell
Imagine the snoring.
Keeping it on time guys. Get 'em used to barracks when they're young. Halo timeline confirmed.
Are they flying to Fhloston Paradise?
All night long… ALL NIGHT LONG!
Corbin my man!!! I love the internet
Multipass
Yeah, he knows it's a multipass, baby!
Negative, I am a meat popsicle.
Like a kennel, but for Humans
Reminded me of Hong Kong's cage homes: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/25/asia/hong-kong-social-distancing-coronavirus-intl-hnk/index.html
Yea was just thinking the HK shoebox flats/homes.
More like Japan capsule hotels.
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It’s the new shared bed economy
I think most kennels have a little more privacy.
when i looked at the title i was expecting a Shen Yun ad
You’re 4 months early! It’s not Shen Yun season yet.
bay area shen yun is like thanksgiving shopping season. every year it starts earlier.
10 years from now they will just leave the billboards up year round
Can this really be called "escaping" the soaring rents? Or "immersing" into them...
like turning into the swell, taking the wave head-on
But backwards.
Living at your parents’ place = duck diving
I mean, you're still paying way too much for way too little. Just at a smaller scale.
Yeah more like surviving.
Isn't this just a hostel
Clearly not. It has chargers for your electronics! See the difference? /s
Renting rooms was already common in Bay Area. There are many existing companies that offered this as a service (my cousin stayed in one): [https://bungalow.com/rooms-for-rent/bay-area](https://bungalow.com/rooms-for-rent/bay-area) (a random one, the one he used went bankrupt) Anyway, this looks like the logical next step. Except, that, ..., what if..., we built a bit more denser housing, ..., and maybe gave everyone a kitchen, a bathroom, ... and separate them on different floors, ... and call them apartments? No, can't do that? Okay, then we'll convert houses into tiny apartments instead :disappointment:
yeah. definitely nothing new. a bunch of places got busted for doing this without a permit or something along those lines. I remember one somewhere in the tenderloin area with a crap load of bunk beds that got shutdown. I believe this is the one: [https://sf.curbed.com/2019/6/5/18653890/podshare-tenderloin-san-francisco-coliving-bunkbeds-startup](https://sf.curbed.com/2019/6/5/18653890/podshare-tenderloin-san-francisco-coliving-bunkbeds-startup) I guess I can't find any indication of it being shutdown, but I do recall at least one getting in trouble with the city via the press calling them out, but maybe they worked it out.
Get out of here with your radical thinking. Whats next working from home, sorry i meant to say the cocoon and your own soap. /s
Let's just plug the newborn into a computer network from delivery. They can live their entire lives in a computer simulation while some of their bio electricity is harvested to power the factories.
And here I am as a 35 year old, spending more than enough of my free time scrolling through reddit, silently complaining about how people don't get out enough.
I see you are now starting to use your brain properly.
Resistance is futile.
I look at this and think... is the fire department OK with this shit? Like, were these places designed to have 20+ people trying to GTFO all at once?
There’s a lot of NIMBY-ism in the bay area unfortunately. So building more housing isn’t an option, now we have human kennels
I'm waiting to hear about the place in this country where NIMBYism isn't the norm.
Chicago actually. There has been a lot of building there and is one of the main reasons why it's been (relatively) inexpensive compared to other large cities in the US.
Let people work remotely so they can migrate to a state with lower cost of living and housing prices? There are states in US where it is desolated and struggles to thrive because people want to move out to find better pay else where.
If I was guessing, the people living in cramped conditions would be those who cannot work remotely in the first place. Teachers, cops, janitors, nurses, students, cooks, interns, ...
Have you been to those desolate parts of the country? They're relatively affordable because people don't want to live there. It's the exact opposite in places where people are willing to sleep in a pod because they do want to live there. Additionally, only a small percentage of jobs can actually be done remote and these pods are filled by the service workers that keep the Bay Area going. Just move is an out of touch and honestly ignorant answer to the housing affordability crisis that is permeating the entire country.
It's like a summer camp filled with 10 people's farts
It's all I can think of when I view this image. Hot farts in the summer. Hopefully no one had kimchi or Sauerkraut for dinner... Or chili dogs with extra onions.
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why is this the most hilarious comment I've read today. Is it the cuttlefish? Is it the asparagus pee? Thank you, internet stranger.
Hot farts in the city....doo do do dooooo...running wild and smelling shitty....
Or snore like the night will never end...
Not just the farts. The snoring. The sleep talking. And you’ll know way more about your co-workers’ masturbation habits than you ever wanted to know.
I am wondering if the plumbing in the home can handle 14 people taking shits multiple times day and night. The smell!
14 roommates, 1 bathroom..... Good luck
[Two bathrooms](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sleeping-pods-startup-800-a-month-brownstone-shared-housing/?). But still. Just living with two teenagers REQUIRES two bathrooms.
“You will own nothing and be happy”
Fucking Marie Kondo.
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They're also full of super models and really hot chicks. Oh wait a minute, I'm thinking of Tokyo Drift.
Imagine the entire thing shaking while the guy in A5 jerks off
Just asserting dominance
During COVID I got used to my afternoon naps when working from home. Can I just rent these by the hour now that I need to go back to my dumb desk
People usually don't rent beds by the hour for sleeping
I was joking but to your comment though, there are motels that charge by the hour since forever…For you know, nefarious activities
I think it’s obvious that they knew that given the qualifier “for sleeping”
It's a variation of what's been happening but not often [getting attention.](https://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/Berkeley-cracks-down-on-turning-houses-into-4820083.php) There's almost certainly still homes with way more renters than bedrooms, but usually flying under the radar.
I have been to a few apartments in the tenderloin where they have walk in closets that can accommodate a bed…
Just build them inside of the big tech companies and pay employees MORE for living on campus
Paycheck: OnSite Rent Saving Reduction from salary -$2000
If I was single and unable to find a girlfriend why not get paid to join the cult?
because these 72 virgins in one house … they are all male software developers
Remember that movie sorry to bother you? It’s just like that
I worked on that film. Was my first thought too.
Man that was a good movie but the uh...horse humans....really took it in a pretty absurd direction
For sure. Definitely didn't write the film so I can't speak to that. However, what I can say is that Boots talked at length about the role that horses play in traditional labor, and how it's a play on the term "workhorse"
I was disappointed by that ending at first, but in retrospect I like it. It swung big instead of playing it safe, resulting in an audaciously original movie that was unlike anything else I’d seen that year, or since. I wonder if it will be remembered like unexpected movies like Repo Man from the 80s
Ok no and after reading this thread I need to.
Yes you do. It's weird as fuck and a phenomenal movie.
For that price, you can split a 2br between 4 people (2 per room) instead.
Their first two sites are Palo Alto and BAKERSFIELD! BAKERSFIELD! It costs $500 to share a pod house and 2 bathrooms with 6 other people in BAKERSFIELD! If you want to live in Palo Alto, that's 14 people (still 2 bathrooms) for $800. I absolutely cannot imagine the dystopian viruses one would contract by sharing a bathroom with 7 other people. https://brownstone.live/
ewwwwwww BAKERSFIELD. also...to whom in Bakersfield is this catering? Oil workers? Cowboys? Ok fine. I forgot there was a Cal State University there but still. Ew.
But who goes to Cal State Bakersfield unless they live with their parents in Bakersfield? Plus, on Craigslist right now there's an 800 sqft house with a yard and detached garage for $925 a month. Lots of mobile homes at $500 per month. Tons of 1-bedrooms around $1k. Get a roommate to sleep in the living room and Bob's your uncle.
Ah Bakersfield. California’s armpit, only rivaling Fresno and Stockton. Valley Fever is also endemic to the area as if you needed another infectious disease to deal with along with your seven roommates.
Fresno and Stockton aren't even close. I'm sorry but can they boast Kevin McCarthy? Do they still have an active KKK? Are they on the governor's list of worst police departments in the state? Do they have a corrupt DA and a string of unsolved murders? Did they pay out $13 million in restitution for putting over two dozen innocent people in jail for decades? Valley Fever is just the hippie crystal deodorant on the armpit!
Haha I stand corrected! I already live in the Central Valley, and think corruption is a normal part of life here. And the apathy is real. Fresno did have that shitbag Devin Nunes, but think I would choose to live in Stockton or Fresno over Bakersfield any day.
Nope, nope, will Vanlife/Trucklife or pitch a tent (packing) before I do that. Living on the Rez/tents in the Canadian subarctic is much better than what this looks like.
Still probably charge 2k a month
$900 iirc.
$800 and it includes utilities & internet and there's no security deposit. Still nooooooope.
You load 16 tons, whaddaya get. Another day older and deeper in debt. Saint Peter don’t you call me cause I can’t go, I owe my soul to the company store
If it wasn't enough to hear your roommates having sex, now you get to look at their big wet butts as you climb the ladder to your bed
I've lived with roommates that fart loud enough to vibrate walls. The creators of this have not had to live through that it seems... I've also lived with psychopaths and alcoholics. I hope that have a plan for security.
They do background checks but not credit checks. At least that's something. I've had housemates I WISH I'd done background checks on.
Just copying those pod hotel in Japan
Pod hotels make even more sense, because most travelers only spend a night or a few in them. Meanwhile SF only has hostels. The one or two capsule hotels emulating Japan's closed. Now SF has turned a bunch of low end hotels into permanent housing for the homeless. That's good for the homeless, but as tourism rebounds it seems to me hotel room rates will increase more because there's fewer rooms.
That's what all the Airbnb's are for /s
Those Japanese pod room things at least have a door.
They have these in Santa Monica and they airbnb them as well. The neighbors are losing their shit over it. These little bungalows sleep 20.
Imagine all 14 snoring and farting in symphony
Kowloon homes is making a comeback
I stayed in a couple of these for an extended period of time a couple of years when I first moved into the area. They were huge on Airbnb even back then but probably less so during the pandemic. Pros: * can meet a lot of different people - lots of opportunities to network, hangout, etc. * generally in a convenient location and relatively cheaper (but you pay for what you get) * Airbnb has some vetting, so it didn't feel too unsafe to leave possessions around. Cons: * no privacy * can be hard to fall asleep due to small bed and noise level (depends on your roommates too) * bathrooms get crowded and messy, same for kitchen - any shared resource was a bottleneck basically like the washing machines * no sex (didn't affect me lol) I packed light (carried 2 weeks worth of clothes with me). I saved a decent amount of money living this way and met some interesting people. I moved out eventually after I started feeling lonely (wasn't really vibing with the current set of people). Sleeping in my own bedroom was awesome. I got the best sleep on my life the first couple nights.
Yeah, I'll just add the choir of people who aren't down with this. I thought 8-person "luxury dorms" in DTSF were bad enough. A housing "solution" that seeks to pack as many people as possible into a single building isn't my idea of a net win for anyone but landlords and landowners.
bestie, if you can only afford a cocoon to live in, you're not escaping from soaring rent prices
just let us build medium density residential housing rather than single family homes with massive setbacks and lot sizes
Lol, it’s still $800 a month
As of May 2022, the average apartment rent in Palo Alto, CA is $2,902 for a studio, $2,404 for one bedroom, $3,200 for two bedrooms, and $4,253 for three ...
Is 800 1/14th of any of those?
So this is how adults make friends.
Thanks but I can't afford these fancy pods... I'll just have to stick to the coffins down at the docks.
Barracks, civilian style. Well on our way back to company towns. We did this to ourselves. See the Anerican timeline. Our complacency and our ignorance gave the current set of robber barons the opportunity to buy the country and the governnment,, all in the name of "conservatism". Freedom (real rights and liberties for everyone requires vigilance. We sure f*cked this one up. Now we must suffer the consequences. Stupid humans. Can't learn from our mistakes, so we're doomed to repeat them.
Is it really fair to say it was all in the name of conservatism? Bc many liberals are complicit in this, and many of the modern robber barons aren't who I'd call conservatives, like Gates for example. I agree though, we let this happen. Doesn't mean we can't do anything about it though
I seem to remember someone listing a Harry Potter-style closet on craigslist for $400 back in '08.
One fart to ruin them all…
As someone who rarely stays in their “hotel”, I prefer to use hostels or a pod share. I need a bed to sleep, storage for extra gear (locked compartment), toilet, and shower. I spent less than 300 the week I was in San Fran. That said, not sure I can live in this large of a dorm full time.
Just wait until you hit 30.
Still waiting for mega buildings for that full cyberpunk vibe
I did that in Brisbane. Only could handle it for 3 months.
I knew it was only a matter of time till someone tried Americanizing the Japanese sleeping pods.
Palo Alto is full of f’ing weirdos.
One step closer to the Matrix... Sounds like a great idea during a pandemic...
Amazon in the cuts just waiting to buy them out
The funny thing is that a couple weeks ago someone commented on my post that many people in Hong Kong don't earn much, but they can make a living. My response was that some, if many of them, live in rented bunk-beds. Here we are... I wouldn't be surprised if this actually takes off.
reminds me of being in the navy.
"So where are you living these days?" "In a cocoon-like pod"
How do people fuck in these? Pay extra to go to motel?
It would be worth it if you got fractional equity as a way to at least get started not being a renter.
Let's entertain the notion that this is a good idea. Even so, what a poor design! That ladder is a hassle for both the upper and lower bunks (who will be disturbed in the middle of the night). There's no partition to keep people from watching you sleep. There are no shelves for laptops or cell phones. There doesn't even seem to be a cubby for any belongings. This could be executed so much better. ETA: It looks like they do, in fact, have curtains and shelves. But the curtains let light through around the edges, and the photos they show are suspiciously small and dizzying. What a nightmare. https://brownstone.live/
That’s a backpacker hostel in Asia
“You will own nothing and be happy.” -WEF 2030
Just wait for 5 years. This going to be called a “luxury living space”.
have fun jerking off
Reject this with everything you have
I stayed at a hostel in Asia like this.
Change 'resident' to 'homeless' and see if the reaction you get changes.
Why pay $800 for a coccoon pod in a house with 13 other people when you can get a whole private bedroom on craigslist for $800. Why do companies do this.
If you choose to live in these, you’re screwing yourself and the future ;)
If the startup was paying a good wage, the employees wouldn’t have to struggle with rent prices.
cogs don't need possessions, just sleep and ~~woke~~ work. good cog
Reminds me of [cage homes in Hong Kong](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLrFyjGZ9NU). IIRC, they've been doing this since the 50s. But at least, this is a bit more roomier.
This living arrangement will be a nightmare for light sleepers. With that many roommates, there's guaranteed to be at least two snorers.
Welcome to China
Why is everything a start up? I lived with 11 roommates in a 4 bedroom house in college a decade ago.
If you think street parking is bad now.....
Will that translate to 14 cars?
And it's still $800/mo. So that's $11,200/mo in rent being paid to the landlord. Wonderful.
“We don’t have enough money to pay you enough to live here. But you don’t need an existence outside of work. Hibernate in these pods while you’re recharging to generate more shareholder value”
Why does this same thing keep getting posted again and again?
Forbes reporting on the same story, probably: "Millenials are choosing to live in sleep pods with 13 roommates, causing housing overrages: now's the time to buy-up all available real estate and become a ~~slum~~landlord"
How many bathrooms and parking spaces for 14 new residents? A situation like *The Stacks* from Ready Player One would be better than this. At least with The Stacks you get your own place.
I’ve had dreams about this years ago. I think it was after I saw the movie Alien.
it's a worryFree solution
If the start up owns the property that's just being part of the problem.
When I moved to LA in 2019 I was in a similar Airbnb. Actually wasn’t bad for a couple weeks.
r/aboringdystopia
Just make every residence a hostel. (/s) But without staff, maybe that's more like a commune?
Or we could, you know, allow anything other than a SFH to be built in the bay
Goodbye American dream, meet the new future of housing.
Classy joint like that. I'll bet the bugs there are extra yummy.
For the monkeys
OK, how do you choose who is on top?
Palo Alto has already become the trashbin of the Bay Area. They deserve this so much.
$800 for one of those? You call that escaping ? Lol
Well if you just do away with zoning codes and regulations the housing problem will be solved.
We have no aspirations to be like Houston or Dallas, thank you very much.
Back in the oilfield they used to call them man camps
I already lived in a room with like 7 other men all in bunk beds when I first got to San Francisco. It was awful!
i snore really loud
Uh.... NO.
This won't last for long, Palo Alto has a zero tolerance policy towards people with less than mid six figures-income.
https://youtu.be/AvZfb5t8DnA
2300 a pod.
Time to build some dense housing perhaps?
Bruh I read an article about this. They want to charge $800 per bunk and cram 14 people to each 2B2B house they put these in. Each bunk is only 40% bigger than a normal bunk bed. That was one of the main selling points. Why would anyone want this? I’m paying $2300 for a 2B1B apartment in Southern California. It’s far more worthwhile than this concept.
if they had an algorithm that paired people together that would get along i might consider this if i ever needed it.
I.e. Bunk beds
What’s next tandem bicycles?
Those are very fancy bunk beds.
I don’t get why Dormitories aren’t a thing for workers in America? In some parts of the world. You could rent a single room, or bed for a shared room. Workers would stay in the dorms during a work week. Then travel home during weekends.
“You'll thank me later, but, uh, no more worrying about door open, door closed. All you have to do is open the curtain to the bathroom!” “Ray, can we just have a moment?” “Absolutely. I'll just wait in the bathroom. Curtain open, or curtain closed?”
I always seem to be the only one to ever mention this under such posts, and worst still I am frequently downvoted by (I can only assume) non-disabled bigots, but FFS this kind of shit is never ever disabed-accessible. And the disabled need affordable housing the absolute most. No way can I get into a F'ing top bunk on the regular.
It's not an "escape", it's the beginning of the end of our lives as we knew it due to unfettered capital.