Techies are paying $700 a month for tiny bed ‘pods’ in downtown San Francisco

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• 01011@monero.town ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s funny to me how many of the things we would told communism would bring about are now be being experienced under the current economic system.

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  • oolio@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But that’s obviously because of the socialist elements left in the system. /s

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  • bob_wiley@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A lot of those states are overflowing with fascists.

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    • TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The problem is that there is not nearly as many good jobs in the rural areas, and most of the good jobs in tech related fields are moving employees back to the office, which means forcing people to work in big cities.

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    • kriz@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t think thats true. Housing prices are high everywhere, I have friends and family in the midwest their shit is out of control too. New York and San Fran are the most extreme for sure but costs of renting or buying have like tripled everywhere over the last decade

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• avater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  for a Job that you can literally do from everywhere on the planet…

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• ViewSonik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The USA is better than this. We should not be forcing people to live in tiny little dorms to work in our tech hubs due to housing costs. Build more apartments, fund it through corporate taxes and actually make San Francisco affordable for our brightest tech workers.

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  • SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Tech workers shouldn’t be working from an onsite location unless they’re touching hardware…there shouldn’t be a central location they’re all at anyways.

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    • anti_antidote@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t know about shouldn’t. I think that there should always be the option to work remotely, but I much prefer to work in an office where I can have a separate mental space from home and be able to build meaningful relationships with my coworkers.

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    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I would love to see incentives to have people work from home in towns that need the population. I think a lot of people would like to live somewhere more rural if they didn’t have to commute… but we would need to fix public transportation if we did that. Otherwise we’re just adding more cars and miles.

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    • BURN@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not everyone works well remote. I much prefer a hybrid model and honestly wouldn’t even consider working somewhere that’s 100% WFH. All that WFH does for me is decrease how much work I get done and make every waking moment in my home feel like work because I live in a 1 bedroom apartment.

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    • ViewSonik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Agreed.

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    • grahamja@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Wouldn’t it be incredible if smaller tech companies spread out a bit? There are plenty of small towns in America that could use any form of industry to keep them alive.

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  • 01011@monero.town ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    History suggests that the USA really isn’t better than this. If you ignore the post WWII boom period, workers being treated terribly is the norm.

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    • ViewSonik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well, no. Im not going to ignore the last 80 years. Of course progress takes time and future-looking we can still do much better. We have the means, we have the land, we have the know how.

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  • miketunes_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Pretty of the housing problem: youtu.be/CCOdQsZa15o?si=zupttseljqhz07RO

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• TKRyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is just a shittier capsule hotel like they have in Japan. At least there they don’t charge you an arm and a leg for it.

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsule_hotel

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  • anubis119@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wikipedia article puts the pricing in Japan between 18 to 36 USD per night. That’s a range between 540 to 1080 USD per month. That makes San Francisco pricing average.

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    • TKRyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ooh good call! I was misremembering the price!

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  • serratur@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They have much better standard, they have a door you can close, not just some curtains.

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    • atzanteol@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Some have curtains in Japan as well.

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• bstix@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t dislike the idea of people living in dormitories, but with a price of $700 it seems that should have a full height room.

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  • Cort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Can’t even stand up to get dressed in one of these

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• onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Can’t they work remotely? Why live in downtown SF? Seems like a waste of money.

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• treefrog@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Coffin Motels.

  The term was coined in Neuromancer I believe.

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• Porka_911@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Rather a converted van, cheaper and serves two purposes as can guarantee that $700 does not include parking.

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  • CandleTiger@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Presumably part of the draw for living in downtown San Francisco is you don’t need to pay for the upkeep and feeding of a car

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  • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah but it avoids the hassle of having your home impounded for being illegally parked.

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• boatsnhos931@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Oh hellll to the no… somebody is making a fucking killing on these idiots though!!

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  • DecentralizeTheWorld@lemmy.whynotdrs.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Are they idiots or are they unable to find housing within budget? Not sure about their rental situation. In Toronto you find ads for half a bed that you have to share for $500cad

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    • boatsnhos931@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They are idiots for staying in an area with prices that high if they aren’t making enough money to make it financially feasible

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• filister@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So sad. I am also afraid that in the future those kinds of accommodations will be thriving with people even more squeezed. Dystopian future.

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• Frylock@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I swear I remember a location like this in one of the newer Deus Ex games, which take place in a cyberpunk ish dystopia

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  • Furbag@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Adam Jensen, the game’s protagonist, searches for a computer hacker named Van Brugen and finds him hiding out in a place called Alice Pods in Hengsha, which is essentially a “hotel” composed of coffin-like closable pods with beds in them. Each guest rents a pod and can make use of the on-site facilities. It was communal living on a shoestring budget (or in Van Brugen’s case, hiding from the Pharmaceutical Megacorp trying to assassinate you).

    The funny part is that the fictional Alice Pods actually had more amenities than this real-life pod hotel does. They had washers and dryer units, private shower stalls and toilets, and even late-night food trucks in the common area serving up food.

    A cyberpunk dystopia actually wasn’t dystopian enough to match reality.

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• scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  $550 is the most I ever paid for a room there, but that was in 2000. My dad loves to talk about his $12 apartment on Sanchez back in 1965.

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• xodoh74984@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Techies?

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