You will own nothing and be happy about it!
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... 2k to just consooooom oxygen.
At first I thought, isn't minimalism a good idea? Like cutting down on unnecessary possessions? That is good. But when you think about all the little things one needs throughout life you realize all this means is you rent them and depend on their constant availability from others and your current ability to pay for them. It's total dependence eventually.
Imagine paying 2k a month to live a life thats like a hobo who's trying to turn his life around.
ikr you can sleep for free on a bench in the park, this guy is a chump
Sinking all his money back into the system and having nothing to show for his life except a resume' that brags how hard he'll work for that system.
This is just another performative virtue signaling
My one bedroom apartment costs a little over half that. It's not great but it does the job and I don't have to live like a fucking animal the meantime.
That's cheap these days. Once upon a time that woulda been a one-bedroom in a place that looks like a palace.
It is. Honestly it's a multicultural dump but it will have to do until I finish grad school and start making real money.
This is particularly obvious farming of the goyim cattle. In China, they call this a good job.
There's a place for minimalism, in fact I think the majority of modern people could probably actually do with more...but I wish these globalist faggots would stop trying to shove absolute slavery disguised as minimalism down all of our throats against our own wishes.
Fuck off, and let people live how they want.
the funny thing is, I bet a lot of hyper leftists would actually be happy to live as a slave, so long as it's not called that. they want a life where they are taken care of, have no responsibilities, and their basic needs are guaranteed. if you propose to them a deal were everything would be taken care of for them and in return they need to provide some kind of Labor, they would likely take it.
that's literally slavery.
got into redpill shit years back, was living in a big blue city, tons of tinder.
the amount of girls who would basically say they don't just want to be submissive in bed, that they straightup want to be a literal sex slave, because it means they don't have to think about anything... it's fucking mind boggling. even weirder when a leftist says it. just don't say the S word though. then it's not good.
But I want to be a propaganda graphic designer!
every now and then, reddit will have a post on what people intend to do after the communist revolution in the US/EU.
and up high on the responses are usually shit like teaching philosophy to children for the ministry of truth. or graphic design for the ministry of truth.
not joking, these people literally want to work in active political propaganda. and of course they have no idea that they are just useful idiots who will be executed or enslaved as soon as their costs exceed what they produce, which would be very early after said revolution.
I read a similar post except nobody even wanted to be a teacher. The posters just wanted to do things like plant small gardens or "write stories" or "just help out." One of them flat up said something like "I'll only do any labor on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 2-4 because reasons."
oh yeah, remember reading someone thought they'd get to write poetry.
fucking lol.
Their lack of useful skills means they'll only be good for shoveling shit, and they'll get the bullet when they act like that's beneath them.
You dig coal, comrade.
This is exactly the sort of dependence you see in ex-cons. They can't deal with the world so they find their criminal niche and, since the fear of imprisonment doesn't exist, they operate with impunity knowing their reward awaits--three hots and a cot and a completely predictable routine. Never mind the threat of ass-rape or getting stabbed because you look at someone sideways.
This isn't minimalism, this is being a serf
Which is why I said
Serfs had a lot more rights and amenities than this.
Serfs only worked 60 real days out of a year.
Serfs owned bigger homes and had more rags to wear.
Minimalism and being someone else's terrarium bug are very different things.
Which, as I said in my other response, is exactly why I said
I actually like tiny houses but sadly there's just so much political baggage. If you live alone and plan to only live alone they're pretty cool. Some are ingenious in space usage, storage etc. But I wouldn't get one for that "minimal carbon footprint", fuck right off.
... $2k/month for just a bunk at a pod and a desk? Even the 15-year house buying plan I was offered to cover an $80k loan (and passed on, going for a 30-year plan) was only $800/month!
At one point in my life I had condensed my belongings and moved for a new job. When I first arrived in the city, I had nothing but my car, my computer, and my clothes. It was kind of a cool feeling to know that if I wanted to get out at any point, it was a matter of packing a suitcase and breaking down my workstation and filling up my gas tank.
But I wouldn't want to live like that. Particularly with the value of my paycheck plummeting due to inflation and having no control over what my renters charge.
There's mental value in downsizing stuff. I do it all the time.
One thing you mention is rent change. That's my favorite part about having a house, it's cost certainty. Taxes and insurance change sure, but when all the houses around me double in value (and they almost have), I still pay what I bought it for. No one is going to come around and say "oh uh yeah this area is more expensive now, you have to pay more"
The government will when they hike your property taxes
They do, but you’re going to pay that in rent too, along with increased value. Albeit in Texas I’m actually expecting a decrease this year.
Exactly -- I can't imagine living in a situation where my "landlords" could not only raise my rent, but could raise the cost of "my" car, the cost of "my" office space, or the cost of god knows what else. (Oh hey, renting shovels just got more expensive. I guess I'll have to delay that planting I was planning on doing.)
The key here is choice.
He chooses to live this way, which is cool for him. As Fight Club said, "the things you own end up owning you" so paring down belongings is appealing to me.
This guy, who doesn't even want to own enough belongings to fill the trunk of a car? Not for me, but more power to him for living the life he wants to live.
Some people want to own all the things, and if they can financially support that lifestyle, more power to them.
The WEF fuckers want to take that choice away from us. They want us all to live like this guy, "for the planet" or some other BS reason. Of course those rich fuckers aren't planning to give up any of the shit they own, that's just for the plebs.
I do think that he's being scammed--the things he's renting aren't worth nearly as much as what he's paying, but I can agree with most of what you said tbh. It actually sounds kind of appealing to be able to drop everything you rent without hassle and be able to swap to a different service in a heartbeat due to how modular you are. Physically, he's almost totally unencumbered, which I can see why people would like.
It probably is that costly, given where he lives. There are probably waiting lists outside the door of people willing to pay for something that cheap for the area.
The scam is just how high cost of living on the West Coast is in general.
And it was working so well until I liked the wrong social media post and suddenly the necessity of ownership became clear-- just kidding. I'm a leftist it never became clear. Newsom 2024
Steven T. Johnson, 27, is retarded.
So basically the tiny-hats were extracting the last bit of wealth from the penny-rubes on the stock price.
WeWork had a batshit pants-on-head crazy business model. They were trying to bring a FAANG work environment to companies outside the top 25 and outside Silicon Valley, when nobody wanted to subsidize or pay those costs.
A competitor that just offers a conveniently-located desk, four walls, and basic facilities (access control, restrooms, cleaning) might have actually succeeded.
I have always wondered what kind of imbecile actually believed that WeWork would actually work.
Now I know, retards who are playing with other people's money.
My 3 bedroom house is about 2000 a month if I were to average in all the costs to live in it. I'll take that over his bed pod any day.
Outside of the surrounding politics I get it to a point. Sometimes people are much too attached to having stuff. The thing is you can still have property without being owned by it.
Poe's Law in full force.
i will not live in the pod
i will not eat the bugs
i will not use the pronouns
My issue with "this is his choice" is that this behaviour is pretty unnatural for most of us, and I'm skeptical of how his situation developed. I obviously don't know this person or what he's been exposed to, but I have to wonder if he's been influenced -- directly or indirectly, maybe as a product of general leftism -- to think this is a good, kind, and selfless approach to life that will endear him to other people. My concern with cases like these is that I don't want whatever attitudes or elements influenced this guy to become so pervasive that we all end up pressured to own less or give up on private property altogether (except for the elites, obviously).
I think most of us are aware of WEF messaging, so to say that this is okay because it's his choice seems naive when I'm more inclined to believe he's a product of social manipulation.
What a fucking loser.
Fake....
The article's real, at least. https://archive.ph/pCFQ4
And I've seen other pics of that "pod space" or whatever the fuck.
Even Buddhist monks would tell him this is not the way to nirvana.
Being a peasant is a good thing, this man proves how he is homeless and loving it.
faggot
Posted to tv for no reason
And women are beating down his door
That's more than my mortgage. I have a 3000 square foot house, acre yard, and 3-car garage plus utility space.
They're preparing the younger generations either for space or livestock yards. Maybe both.
What a miserable fucking existence.
Sad loser
The government knows that the easiest way to make someone disappear is to make sure they don't have anyone or anything to tell you they were there in the first place.
I checked the PodShare website and the cheapest bed they have is $55 a day. Steven T Johnson must be turning tricks to get that pod for $1400 a month.
It's a four year old article.
Either a certified troll or undiagnosed retard.
This can't be real...