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IKEA has furnished and is renting out a 10 m2 apartment in central Tokyo for about a dollar per month. It's clearly a gimmick of sorts as the furniture in the apartment are worth a lot more then that. Still looking at the pictures it looks like living in a nicely furnished prison cell, that is also very high (floor to ceiling). Any takers for such compact living? I dont think climbing around on ladders to get around is for me.
It seems very futuristic though; it is a staple of sci-fi to pack people like sardines in a can (Ripley's apartment in aliens, 5th element etc., etc.)
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/25/business/ikea-japan-tokyo-tiny-apartment-scli-intl/index.html
https://www.ikea.com/jp/ja/campaigns/ca00-tiny-homes-pub616dcf20
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 28 2021, @04:56PM (4 children)
More or less, just without the trip to Mars.
Eventually nobody can afford to live and capitalism is overthrown.
That's not a good thing.
(Score: 0, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 28 2021, @07:16PM (1 child)
Better than socialism, where some people get some stuff free.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by mhajicek on Sunday November 28 2021, @09:13PM
Getting stuff for free is great! It the government taking your stuff without compensation that sucks.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 28 2021, @07:36PM (1 child)
Compact Compact Compact Living. Coffin-sized housing, you'll love it.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Sunday November 28 2021, @09:57PM
You mean compost living?
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