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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, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 29 2021, @05:06PM (1 child)
I'm not sure what country you come from but something that works in a small tight knit mono-cultured country with strict borders may not be transferable to a larger multi-cultured country with loose borders (and not just country borders, state borders as well). A European country is about the size of a U.S. state and the problem is that something that may work in one location that doesn't work in another would result in people from that other location (ie: another state or neighborhood) spilling over their crimes into the location where it works (ie: the criminals from one neighborhood stealing from those of another). Smaller European countries have the luxury of better locking out people from neighboring areas out of their country because they have more autonomy and control of how to handle their smaller spaces to work in. European countries have much stricter border controls than the U.S. and they confine much greater uniform control over a much smaller area. Different U.S. states and counties and cities may handle crime differently and even if your state or location handles it well if a neighboring state or location doesn't the result might be that people from a neighboring location might creep into your location and commit crimes. An entire country confined to a small location can better block those people from entering, a neighborhood, city, or state may have a lot more difficulty controlling for that.
Even in the U.S. there are good neighborhoods and bad ones. Certain neighborhoods may be good, for instance, because they have limited ways to enter and exit so someone that enters can be blocked off from making an easy getaway because the cops can easily block the exit paths (ie: no nearby freeways). Lots of factors contribute to crime rates in various neighborhoods such as how roads are laid out and how easy it is for someone to stop in the middle of the road, grab something from, say, a business area, and get away.
Not sure I believe the genetics part of it (I think it's mostly cultural, many people from Africa that come to the U.S. are very hard working and honest and are often more successful than the whites) but here is a comment I read somewhere.
"The genetics and culture of Europeans. Northern European crime rates globally are nearly identical. White crime levels on north america are about the same as those in Australia,. New Zealand and northern Europe among st white people And for example the same applies to black crime levels throughout the west, the same in Europe as in north america etc. The same applies to other ethnic groups. For example Chinese inside and outside of China"
I disagree with this. Statistically if you look at people from any race that come from dual parent families they are just about as successful as any group of people from dual parent families. African Americans from dual parent families are just about as successful as whites from dual parent families. Whites from single parent families are just about as unsuccessful and prone to becoming criminals as African Americans from single parent families.
I think culture plays a much larger role and what works for European countries may not work for Americans because a strong social net to fall on would result in certain people taking advantage, having more children that don't work, resulting in more single parent family structures and more crime and more people abusing the social net which would place an undue burden on everyone else.
A one size fits all doesn't work. We need to better target the underlying issues. Perhaps a strong social net is a good thing but it won't work unless we figure out how to target people's problems on the individual level as well. A strong social net doesn't work if too many people would take advantage of it and it doesn't work if you have too many people that would still become criminals and drug addicts regardless. It starts at the home, we need both good government on the larger scale but we also need good people/citizens on the smaller scale (governments are composed of citizens).
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 29 2021, @05:13PM
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Also, I hear in some European countries like Serbia, everyone is assigned a psychologist. I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing (depending on the psychologist and what they push, we don't want some woke, single parent promoting, psychologists).
In the U.S. seeing a psychologist is almost taboo. It suggests there is something wrong with you. The thing is we all have issues to some extent and assigning everyone a professional psychologist that they are assigned to periodically visit, similar to a periodic general practitioner for a general checkup, just to talk without necessarily being labeled insane or having mental issues (which could have ramifications on you professionally) or requiring everyone to take meds (something pharma would love to push, so we need to be careful of that) could be a good thing. But it needs to be done carefully as well.