Extraordinary 

A one bedroom will cost three times that. Property in SF is totally fooked thanks to the tech nerds.

So my first though on seeing that is... how on earth would you even be able to have a w**k.. ?

There is absolutely zero privacy.

Presumably on the boarding school lines of “I didn’t see or hear anything”.

It reminds me entirely of the dorm at prep school tbh.

I love how they seem to be trying to claim its some sort of innovative new model when it's just bed space like maids and workers live in all across the middle east and Asia (except at least they generally have curtains along the beds to address Scylla's concern to some degree). 

The 'next level innovation' will no doubt be rotating 8 hours shifts for three people per bed just like the iron and mill towns of the industrial revolution.

People are really, really fvcking stupid to be putting up with this sh1t in a democracy where they could actually organize and do something about it if they got off their ar8es.  Living standards for ordinary people are hurtling backwards at a rate of knots.  Oh, oh but I have a shiny macbook and 500 followers on instagram and had organic avocado on toast for breakfast so I must be doing well. 

Oh this is horrifying. I thought the WorryFree ads in Sorry to Bother You were hilarious dystopian satire, but it turns out they were straight reporting. Jeez. 

I've read many times that the primary reason for the crazy price of housing in SF is not primarily due to the demand caused by the tech companies per se, but the city's incredibly strict planning restrictions and nimbyism, driven by existing homeowners looking to pump the value of their properties. Can anyone here speak to that?

Wot Ronald said. Next stop, horse people.

Anyway, surely a porpoise should endorse living in pods?

This is what you eventually get if your political system and voting patterns consistently shoot down any policies that might reduce inequalities or broaden access to key resources, especially land.

So it’s ironic, though not entirely surprising, to find shock and dismay being expressed at these developments by the hidebound conservatives of ROF, who continually hoot and hah at the mildest of reformist ideas.

The weird thing is that someone hasn’t started a housing scheme/arrangement like a college dorm room type arrangement for adults. With perhaps slightly bigger rooms.. and communal kitchens and bathrooms. 

It’s would be far better than this.

Honestly even I would consider going back and living in a similar accomodation to what I had in the dorms at university. I quite liked living like that. 

Or even the old school boarding house type arrangements. 

An older spinster lady running a large house with the rooms rented out and providing breakfast and dinner.

Also  LOL @Klaus and his podschwitz 

I wonder why they give them a telly, kids dont watch telly these days.

Kids watch box sets and stream stuff. Also, they bulk ordered the pods from the people who fitted out ADX Florence.

Tbf, this is only a logical extension of the "open-plan" office concept. I've found working in open-plan unbearably depressing. I no longer have a fitted wardrobe, a stash of whisky or a nice comfy armchair in which to relax in the afternoon. Given that we spend almost as many waking hours at work as at home, this is a big deal.