Proximity/price and community. Anything in SF proper is going to be, at minimum, 2-3x more expensive. To get this kind of price, you’d need to commute from outside the city.
Re community, the people that live at this kind of place are generally grinding super hard in the tech industry. So trying to live with like-minded workaholics in the same stage of life.
Source: I have lived in SF and east bay, both in places like this, and renting an apt the normal way.
It’s time. This is only going to get worse. (And this is not a call to violence, but reform. Please don’t misunderstand, and hear me out - I use the words of those wiser than me, and wish to share what I have learned.)
We have tried to act by silent manipulation - a perfectly valid way of exercising our will. But we have failed. In attempting to exercise our will in a way synchronous to those more powerful than us, we have instead allowed them to build us into another herd morality - one of willing slavery. This can stand no longer. Violence against those weaker than you may be a sign of weakness, but using it as the last resort to escape those acting counter to your most basic needs may soon become the only way out.
We must act now. We must wait no longer, or soon there may be no alternative to violent revolt. I fear it may be too late. But in the struggle for the power to control your own life, any means required to exercise that will is justified. They are weak in will, and in their weakness, they resort to the illusion of strength that comes from squashing us under their feet.
They fight for themselves and their own will to power. I respect that - but they have made a fatal mistake, and shown their weakness by resorting to a show of force against us. It is this:
There are two ways to exercise your will over another: to annihilate them, and continue on as one force behind your will. Or to build them up, and change their life for the better - to make them a better, stronger person.
The former is what the aristocrats choose. It carries a great illusion of strength. But the latter is how we must fight - while they trample one another, we must strengthen each other. Though we disagree on how to exercise it, we share a common will: change. If we work together to accomplish that, rather than fight like they do, we can overcome their power easily.
Reshaping another’s will by empowering each other is far more potent than fighting each other. In doing so, as a being of will, you make them indebted to you. And that helps orient their will towards yours. And that is how you achieve true power - by starting a movement. One that can shape the very universe to your will.
I have not started a movement. But I see that this movement is in line with my will. So I will add my small power to it, and seek to add more. We have no name or banner. Or rather, we have too many to reconcile. That is good. Instead of fighting for whose details and name should be plastered on a useless surge of will, let’s all join under whatever banner we choose to fly (and I fly only my own just as many of you), and come together to spark the fire of action.
The revolution began long ago. Perhaps it has burned since the beginning of time, recurring forever, and will never truly end until the universe collapses and our eternal will is ended.
But perhaps in fighting, we can join something eternal. Something not reliant on faith or platonic idealism, but rather a tangible effect that repeats until time itself is extinguished.
I choose to join. I ask you to as well. Join us - join the force, with no name or banner, but a common goal - and live, through your will, forever.
I put it in places where I felt it would be appropriate and contribute to the ongoing conversation. I thought I was careful not to be pushy or offensive, or go off topic, but you have the right to disagree.
I’ll make sure to carefully consider whether repeating my opinion in a different conversation with different people about the same topic is constructive.
Edit: just noticed I posted twice in the same thread. I wrote it down there but moved it to top level. The copy’s now been removed to clean up the thread, sorry. And thanks for pointing it out, my mistake.
700$ a month!? I mean if this is what it takes to keep more people from slipping through the cracks into homelessness I’m all for it, but fuck the whole system that got us to this point.
"Sir, the owners’ property protection bill of 2035 requires you to have a permanent address to register a motor vehicle or bicycle, PO boxes don’t fulfill that requirement. In-office bed cubicles are sufficient.
PO boxes never fulfilled that requirement I don’t know why people think you can use a PO box on your driver’s license or vehicle registration. They want a physical domicile where the government can come and govern you.
Seems cleaner, but similar to the kind of places I lived while getting into tech in SF (maybe ~8 months total)… I have some pretty interesting stories from that time lol. But extra hilarious was years later seeing a dystopian article about one of the very places I had lived (had it down to the Pinterest dev living in the closet):
Los Angeles bases its occupancy limits on the square footage of a unit, rather than the number of bedrooms:
<span style="color:#323232;">- One to two people for every 70–119 square feet
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Three people for every 120–169 square feet
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Four people for every 170–119 square feet
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- 50 square feet for each additional person
</span>
What happens to all these people living in sarcophagi (TIL that’s a real word) when another pandemic/lockdown happen? Do they just go into solitary confinement conditions worse than actual solitary confinement in terms of square footage?
Asking for a friend that happens to be everyone in New York who isn’t rich
Alright, this is an obvious copy of a japanese box hotel, even the prices are the same with ~25 dollars at night. What I don’t like about it are the non isolated rooms, a silent and save nights rest is not too much to ask. What I do like is the community living, have your own space and share some facilities and appliances. Could save a lot of energy, materials and combat loneliness. I’d love to see appartement blocks where entire floors are living groups where you apply to check if you get along with these people and rent a room. Like a student housing for adults.
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