Wednesday, March 30, 2022


Amazing what we settle for as our once envied standard of living falls into a Black Hole. Above a shipping container as affordable housing. Though the cute storybook setting does not come with it. Picture it covered in security bars with dozens of others in a trash strewn muddy lot. I imagine as it gets worse dumpsters will be marketed as studio apartments. 

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  1. AnonymousMarch 30, 2022 at 3:33 PM

    A few years ago I was rather enthusiastic about the possibility of relatively stress-free ownership by going tiny. I pictured living a charming gypsy wagon with flower boxes hanging out its cute dormer windows, parked in some idyllic locale. Now I think it will be like you are saying. Not only that, but the real estate industry will clean up by marketing these dumpster rat traps of despair at outrageous prices; rent extractor landlords are already doing this with trailer parks.

    BTW, appalling tin roof shantytowns are already going up in some parts of Oakland, and have been for a while.

    A smaller dwelling is not a bad idea; it keeps down maintenance and heating costs. But tiny? No thanks.

    Z

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  2. AnonymousMarch 30, 2022 at 10:08 PM

    Welcome to the new normal!
    F-ck this! What a world we have created!
    Shit! Shit! Shit!

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  3. uncle1950uncleMarch 31, 2022 at 6:29 AM

    Clearly there's a desperate market for these.
    This and the dumpster studio digs to come. Those that get them will think themselves lucky. In a tragic real-time sense they would be.

    Yes, we have come to this.
    Living in a shipping crate is now a great idea. If this was inserted decades ago into a sci/fi flick of the 70's or 80's. We'd back then have shuddered at the calm dystopian routineness of it.

    John Brunner in his 70's s/f books foresaw just such. The 21st century's slow contraction from first to second to finally mass 3rd world conditions in formerly wealthy nations.

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  4. uncle1950uncleMarch 31, 2022 at 6:32 AM

    Science fictions writers have a general sense of what's coming. Sociological s/f writers too often are dead on target.

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