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
(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.