In our city we don't pay any rent, because someone else is using our free space whenever we do not need it. My living room is used for business meetings when I am not there.
I find this bit curious. Why would the author have an area that she considers her living room? In a world like this, surely you wouldn't bother returning to a particular "free space" every night. You'd just check into whatever room was convenient. They'd all be the same and it's not like you have any property you're leaving behind.
Also, why are there business meetings? If no one has to buy anything, no one needs a job.
Seriously, the concept of not paying rent because other people use your house when you're not there is dumb as hell. Everyone could say that. In the meantime, the house is going to need maintenance and repairs. Even if you've got a robot to do the repairs (and from what I've read, jobs like plumbing, roofing, etc are going to be among the last to be automated since every repair is a bit different), there's still going to be a cost to getting it done, however minimal it might be.
I know someone who worked at a company that had no assigned work area: employees would come in and claim a free desk, and I think they went so far as to frown upon someone claiming the same desk every day. It's one thing to let people self-organize, but to frown on people for self-organizing the "wrong" way seems wrong to me.
One of the things I don't like about hotels is that it's expected that someone will come into your room every day to clean it. On the one hand it's nice that things get cleaned, but I don't like that it requires that someone intrude upon my private space every day.
A world where you spend your whole life a nomad with no territory you can claim as your own sounds fucking awful, and I will take no part in such a world.
The thing is, humans are possessive, territorial animals. Give schoolkids the choice to pick any desk, many of them will form their own preferences for a certain desk; the same goes for any other space (lunch tables, bar stools, etc). See, her choice of language in that article even tells on herself as such an animal.
But that's the thing, their philosophies hinge on the entire denial of the human animal even existing. The human is just a construct, see.
Well that's not true, the ones the elites would use would be much nicer than the dilapidated, vandalized, squalid shitholes the rest of the populace would get to scramble and fight over every night.
I find this bit curious. Why would the author have an area that she considers her living room? In a world like this, surely you wouldn't bother returning to a particular "free space" every night. You'd just check into whatever room was convenient. They'd all be the same and it's not like you have any property you're leaving behind.
Also, why are there business meetings? If no one has to buy anything, no one needs a job.
Seriously, the concept of not paying rent because other people use your house when you're not there is dumb as hell. Everyone could say that. In the meantime, the house is going to need maintenance and repairs. Even if you've got a robot to do the repairs (and from what I've read, jobs like plumbing, roofing, etc are going to be among the last to be automated since every repair is a bit different), there's still going to be a cost to getting it done, however minimal it might be.
I know someone who worked at a company that had no assigned work area: employees would come in and claim a free desk, and I think they went so far as to frown upon someone claiming the same desk every day. It's one thing to let people self-organize, but to frown on people for self-organizing the "wrong" way seems wrong to me.
One of the things I don't like about hotels is that it's expected that someone will come into your room every day to clean it. On the one hand it's nice that things get cleaned, but I don't like that it requires that someone intrude upon my private space every day.
A world where you spend your whole life a nomad with no territory you can claim as your own sounds fucking awful, and I will take no part in such a world.
The thing is, humans are possessive, territorial animals. Give schoolkids the choice to pick any desk, many of them will form their own preferences for a certain desk; the same goes for any other space (lunch tables, bar stools, etc). See, her choice of language in that article even tells on herself as such an animal.
But that's the thing, their philosophies hinge on the entire denial of the human animal even existing. The human is just a construct, see.
Well that's not true, the ones the elites would use would be much nicer than the dilapidated, vandalized, squalid shitholes the rest of the populace would get to scramble and fight over every night.