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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 Monday November 29 2021, @03:22PM (3 children)
Much of the problem is that U.S. criminalizes things for the wrong reasons. They do it to protect the profit margins of large corporations that sell competing products. That's partly why the FDA bans so many dietary supplements (though, granted, many of those dietary supplements are unproven, it should be MY choice to determine what I want to take), that's why they ban so many substances after the patents expire, that's why the FDA prohibits consumers from directly buying drugs from other countries like Canada, etc... The FDA works for big pharma. That's why drug prices are so high here in the U.S.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 29 2021, @03:30PM (2 children)
Not to mention all of the cumbersome licensing that's required for every little thing you want to do in states like California. It's almost impossible to make a living without obtaining and maintaining all of these expensive licenses and keeping the licensing bureaus and trade schools funded at our expense. While much of it is good there is a social cost to it so we need to make sure we aren't going overboard either.
For instance, in California you must pay a fee to renew your drivers license every four years. In other states it's ten years or so. It's just for the DMV to collect more money.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday November 29 2021, @08:32PM (1 child)
For most of my life, it's been two years, or four years, at the licensee's option. In more recent years, it seems that six years is optional, I've never seen 10 years. It would take more internet searches than I'm willing to do to prove either way.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 30 2021, @10:17PM
When I looked it up for Nevada it's once every eight years. For Arizona I guess it's every 12 years?
"ARIZONA: Licenses expire on the 65th birthday, and until then drivers only need new photos every 12 years — making Arizona unique in how long a license can last."
https://www.myimprov.com/arizona-drivers-license-does-expire/ [myimprov.com]
I know I've seen the driver's licenses of people from these surrounding states and was surprised at how far into the future some of them expire compared to California (based on the expiration dates printed on the licenses).