It's 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better (2016)
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Re: It's 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better (2016)
#2> One by one all these things became free
Science fiction, right there.
Re: It's 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better (2016)
#3This reads like a description of a pretty awful dystopia. Or at least one where everything might seem great, until it isn't.
And when it turns, turning it back is HARD / near impossible.
Do people read this and think that is the sort of life they would want in the future?
Re: It's 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better (2016)
#4It's not like young generations could afford to own anything anyways anymore.
Re: It's 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better (2016)
#5> One by one all these things became free Science fiction, right there.
Yeah one guy is going to get a hundred lambos and use them like tissues. Used it for more than a month? Into the trash.
Re: It's 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better (2016)
#6Sounds awful.
Re: It's 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better (2016)
#7"My living room is used for business meetings when I am not there"? No thanks!
Re: It's 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better (2016)
#8I am unclear as to the author's intent. I expect most people here would find such ideas offensive.
And yet so many things seem on the right track. It's the polar opposite of the outrageously inefficient model where everything you use, you own, and for 99.9% of the time, the thing just sits there depreciating or taking up space. Regarding cars, as a city liver who needs a car (but has no driveway or garage), I certainly yearn for a better way.
Obviously some things are going to be bothersome, such as the idea of people holding business meetings in your living room when you are away. But I do like the idea of more sharing, and letting go -- at least a bit -- of the urge to own so much stuff.
Re: It's 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better (2016)
#9It's not like young generations could afford to own anything anyways anymore.
Get a job!
Re: It's 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better (2016)
#10It's not like young generations could afford to own anything anyways anymore.
Get a job!
>Across the country, Tekin found that "[m]edian home prices have increased at four times the rate of household incomes since 1960," meaning homeownership is increasingly out of reach for many Americans. Rents, meanwhile, have grown roughly twice as fast as adjusted wages between 1960 and 2017.
https://kinder.rice.edu/urbanedge/2019/07/25/gap-between-inc...