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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: 1, Disagree) by crafoo on Sunday November 28 2021, @05:03PM (9 children)
The populace demands free money: welfare, social security, "free" healthcare, etc. The populace is too stupid to understand the most very basic economics. They refuse to pay their share in taxes - they want other people's money. So the government prints money, as raising taxes just gets them voted out of office. Everyone wants other people's money, no one wants to pay. Inflation ensues. Prices of everything goes up - all that free money.
Free money and redistribution of wealth resulting in the highest inflation in decades is not capitalism my friend. We have a word for it - communism. Let's not pretend to be stupid.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 28 2021, @05:06PM
I don't recall working class struggle twisting the arm of the Fed.
It looks more like the bourgeoisie is responsible for the Fed printing money. They can't stand the bust that needs to happen, so they're flailing around with MMT trying to keep the music going because they all know that when the music stops, one of them has to become a prole.
Your entire post is projection.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 28 2021, @06:24PM (7 children)
"Let's not pretend to be stupid."
Yes, post it here for everyone to read! It will never cease to amaze me how eagerly republicans swallow the lies from their leaders that shifts the blame elsewhere.
(Score: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 28 2021, @08:10PM
What do stupid people looking like pretending not to be stupid? Very stable geniuses.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 28 2021, @08:53PM (3 children)
And, what do Democrats swallow along with the lies their leaders tell them? Is that you, Monica Lewinsky?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 28 2021, @09:54PM (2 children)
They swallow Bill Clinton's 10" sausage and spill sauce down their dress AMIRITE???
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 29 2021, @02:29AM (1 child)
These days, it's Brandons Vienna sausage, shriveled and dessicated, without any sauce.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 29 2021, @02:48AM
Ok Incel.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 29 2021, @01:27AM (1 child)
The republicans also waste money on useless things like unneeded wars and whatnot. That doesn't excuse the democrats from all their spending programs that just amount to more inflation either. Both parties have their issues.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 29 2021, @06:37AM
Stop swallowing the kool-aid. Republicans may be more nationalistic, but the democrats are bigger war-mongers.