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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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.
ReplyDeleteBTW, 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.
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Welcome to the new normal!
ReplyDeleteF-ck this! What a world we have created!
Shit! Shit! Shit!
Clearly there's a desperate market for these.
ReplyDeleteThis 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.
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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