For the love of God, please craft hobbies and an appreciation for life beyond abstract “utility” maximization. These freaks are so hyperalienated from their own existence that they can’t conceive of themselves as anything other than an input. Sorry nerds, you won’t find self-actualization by designing a marginally more addictive ad-software or another tulip bubble. Please stop eating the bugs and look at some art for a fucking change.
The only people that advocate for this lifestyle are people with no friends, no families, and no ambitions for either. The odd part is that they have very little consciousness of just how differently they live to normal people. It’s a huge chunk of why they’re so fundamentally out of touch with the average person.
I know some people I used to go to college with that started joining “pods” or “colonies” or other buzzwords that blend together as soon as they got their cerifications. To this day, as far as I know, they’re still “preparing” for the lives ahead of them, while being in their late 30s and early 40s. No actual steps taken into having non-work friends or relationships, just a “any moment now everything will pay off and they will be gods among men” confidence.
What’s actually around doesn’t matter. The next tech hype thing will surely be superior to it and surpass it. It’s endless preparing while running in place and it’s sad to watch happen to another person.
An odd contradiction is that they advocate this lifestyle while also advocating technology like VR, which is completely incompatible with people living in this kind of space.
It goes to show just how little their consciousness is of the living space and daily life compared to the technology they advocate.
An odd contradiction is that they advocate this lifestyle while also advocating technology like VR, which is completely incompatible with people living in this kind of space.
I’ve argued about that exact contradiction with one of the exact people I mentioned before.
His answer was NeuraLink™®. Just like in the Cyberpunkerinos.
the problem with this type of sacrifice is at a certain point they become even more invested because they need it to be worth everything they’ve already lost out on
I’m not fundamentally opposed to sleeping pods, but they have to be combined with maximum communitization.
Public kitchens, public baths, public crafting spaces, public theaters, public arcades, public gardens, public libraries, public toilets, public lounges, public dining, literally every thing that you could have privately in a home should be shared with everyone else in the pod-hive. Rather than a utilitarian nightmare, it’s a collectivist hive for bug people like me! And if you really need some time alone, there’s your bunk-box.
A large surplus of housing, so one could change their surroundings on a whim, would be an ideal socialist future. Hostels are a type of communal pod system you are talking about.
I’m skeptical of abundance on a finite world nearing the limits of growth and being destroyed by climate change.
That said, pod hives could be easily established in any location. Want to live near a beach? Near a skiing slope? Near dense forest? Near downtown? There’s pods for that!
Endlessly modular, extremely efficient, and using far fewer resources than fully private housing in all of these disparate locations.
Join us. Become a bug. Never be alone again!
A shitton of land is suburban wasteland and all the infrastructure to support it. Turf grass alone takes up 2% of all land in the US (from a quick search) and I imagine the stroads, strip malls, and single family homes with 3+ car garages take up another 3-5%. The problem has always been wasteful and destructive land use rather than scarcity. Imagine all the current suburbs as parks, farmland, or rewilded areas instead of ugly tract homes. I don’t think infinite growth is possible or anything but cities should be looking to Shanghai and Tokyo as a blueprint.
It’s also hilarious to me that NIMBYs are so opposed to any form of urbanization because “muh property value” when the highest property values are in the most urbanized, walkable places.
I’m skeptical of abundance on a finite world nearing the limits of growth and being destroyed by climate change.
What if I told you that we already have abundant housing, right now, as I type this out. And I’m not talking about our hotels, prisons, or “camp grounds”, but actual livable units1. Enough to solve Homelessness in the US multiple times over2.
It simply is not evenly distributed yet
That said, pod hives could be easily established in any location. Want to live near a beach? Near a skiing slope? Near dense forest? Near downtown? There’s pods for that!
Oh I believe in seizing hotels for exactly this purpose.
1 Census on housing, table 3, Vacant Year Round - Held off Market: 6,812,000 units. This is nearly 5% of the entire US housing stock, and almost half of the Vacant year-round units.
2 Department of Housing and Urban Development homeless count in 2022: 582,462 people
Guessing that “founders” is a verb and not a noun here
Sleeping in a $700/month coffin so I can invent technology that makes the world more callous and unlivable. Love me I’m a techbro!
Could give these to unhoused people for free but noooo let techbro douchebags rent them out.
This is just a hackathon for people who are old enough to know better
