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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, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 29 2021, @01:21AM (8 children)
What does capitalism have to do with it. It's the increase in population that has everything to do with it. If you previously had 100 homes and 200 people that averages to 2 people per home. Now that we freely let all the illegals in and supported them and gave them free stuff and rights and everything and they come from poor uneducated countries with high birth rates we have 1000 people per 100 homes (exaggerating) and so that amounts to 10 people per home unless we start being more and more compact and congested and foraging more and more land and resources.
The solution is population control. Control our borders and stop having so many children. The democrats also need to stop paying people to keep having children.
We are now more socialistic than ever and the problem is only getting worse. We didn't have this problem decades ago when we were more conservative and capitalistic. Yet you still want to blame capitalism despite the fact that things continue to go downhill the more socialist we become.
Plus socialist countries have strict border controls. The U.S. democrats want to both have open borders and socialist programs.
and if you are complaining that everything is so expensive you should then be complaining about all the high taxes you pay. Those taxes could help pay for your expenses instead of going to the government to squander. Inflation is also a tax.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 29 2021, @01:50AM (5 children)
Let's also not forget that if you only make like $40K a year in California you are now required to pay like $200 a month for health insurance with zero regard for health status. If you make like $10K less a year that goes down to like $33 a month. This health insurance tax is a tax on the middle to lower class to fund the unemployed drug addicts and perhaps the illegals. What someone pays in health insurance should have little to do with income and more to do with their health instead of requiring them to fund someone else's poor health decisions based on your working class income. Or at the very least someone making $40K a year shouldn't be required to pay $200 a month in health insurance because, like I said, that's not taxing the wealthy, that's taxing the lower to middle class.
Just like the 'tax gap' attempts to let the IRS further look at everyone's bank accounts that they want to pass is just another attempt to further tax the lower and middle taxes. The rich already substantially pay all their taxes. But they call it the tax gap claiming that it's to tax the rich that aren't paying their taxes. You have to be an idiot to believe that. (not that I care, I'm under a W2 so I pay all my taxes but I'm not stupid, I know the intent of the law).
The democrats are not about helping the working class. They're about further taxing the lower and working class and squandering the money for their own benefit. That's what they do in socialist countries. They tax most of your income so that you struggle to pay your bills and the government squanders the money. That's what the democrats here want (not that the republicans are better, they just squander the money on different things).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 29 2021, @02:47AM
To further tax the lower and middle classes *
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 29 2021, @05:20PM (3 children)
I guess we should vote for the fascists then. Makes sense.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 29 2021, @06:27PM (1 child)
The Nazi party was called the Nazi socialist party. So, no, I wouldn't support voting for people that are even further to the left than the democrats.
(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Tuesday November 30 2021, @05:35PM
The National Socialist German Worker's Party had as much to do with socialism as much that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a democracy and/or a republic.
Just because it is in the name doesn't make it one.
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(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 29 2021, @06:30PM
When you talk about Nazis and the KKK you are specifically referring to the democrats. The Nazi party (the Nazi socialist party), the KKK, they were democrats/socialists. The U.S. Republican party was created to oppose slavery. The U.S. republican party freed the slaves, they gave blacks and women the right to vote, they had the first black congressman in office, the democrats passed the Jim Crow laws.
Stop being your typical democrat/socialist that wants to rewrite history and assign the unpopular history that your party was responsible for onto your opposing party.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 29 2021, @05:28AM (1 child)
Because under communism everyone would be starving to death so there would be no population increase :)
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 29 2021, @11:32AM
We used to be a lot more capitalistic and we used to be much better off than we are now and much better off than socialist countries. Now we're much more socialist and we are starting to have the same struggles that socialist countries have. Yet somehow the solution is even more socialism. It makes no sense.