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

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[-] 01011@monero.town 116 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[-] oolio@feddit.de 34 points 2 years ago

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

[-] TKRyer@sh.itjust.works 37 points 2 years 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.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsule_hotel

[-] anubis119@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years 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.

[-] erwan@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago

You can't really compare a per night pricing to a per month pricing. Per month is always cheaper that per night but you loose the flexibility.

Anyway the price difference makes sense because SF housing is more expensive than Tokyo.

[-] TKRyer@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago

Ooh good call! I was misremembering the price!

[-] serratur@lemmy.wtf 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They have much better standard, they have a door you can close, not just some curtains, the SF one is like a hostel.

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Some have curtains in Japan as well.

[-] bstix@feddit.dk 32 points 2 years 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.

[-] Cort@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

These look little more luxurious than the low-income housing in Beijing.

[-] bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 years ago

Return to work is all about keeping money in the financial district.

[-] Porka_911@sopuli.xyz 19 points 2 years ago

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

[-] CandleTiger@programming.dev 22 points 2 years 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

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 4 points 2 years ago

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

[-] filister@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years 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.

[-] Frylock@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 years 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

[-] Furbag@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years 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.

[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years 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.

[-] xodoh74984@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago
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