cool but just because you are fine living in a concrete box does not mean everyone else does or that trying to get everyone to will solve anything. you are out of touch with the people around you. there’s these things called ‘privacy’ and ‘property’ that normal people aspire to have and that apartments are the polar opposite of. it makes much more sense to phase out the idea of having the whole company work in one place than to force everybody into apartment complexes so they can always be at their master’s beck and call. it’s crazy that you are on the fediverse and yet you want to have your real life situation be exactly as centralized as the platforms you are here to escape.
You have a somewhat weird assumption of what I’m trying to tell you.
I don’t want everyone to live in an apartment. But they are needed for a healthy city. The residential suburbs made of of single family homes that the US is building everywhere are not sustainable. The infrastructure costs far outweigh the tax revenue they’ll every generate. The people living there have to have a car to get around because everything is too far away. This just can’t work in the long run.
there’s these things called ‘privacy’ and ‘property’ that normal people aspire to have and that apartments are the polar opposite of.
That’s plain wrong. My neighbors have no idea about what I do in my apartment. I never let them inside and there is no need to do that. Heck I don’t even know their names Even my landlord was never inside since I rented it.
And why do I need to own it? What advantage is there? I would be stuck to this place as property isn’t that easy to sell.
My parents are trying selling the family house they built themselves for almost 2 years now. They are now too old to maintain it and none of the children wants it. We all have our own lives. That’s the reality for most of the people that own property: You are stuck with it whether you like it or not.
at their master’s beck and call
Do you have some kind of delusion?
it’s crazy that you are on the fediverse and yet you want to have your real life situation be exactly as centralized as the platforms you are here to escape.
Those two don’t compare. At all. You’ll always need to have some kind of central ‘power’ to coordinate efforts and resources. Here the instance is the center that’s doing that, much like a city does. And if I don’t like the instance I switch to another one like if I don’t like a city I’ll move.
I live in a small town of just 20k people in an apartment. It’s perfectly fine.
cool but just because you are fine living in a concrete box does not mean everyone else does or that trying to get everyone to will solve anything. you are out of touch with the people around you. there’s these things called ‘privacy’ and ‘property’ that normal people aspire to have and that apartments are the polar opposite of. it makes much more sense to phase out the idea of having the whole company work in one place than to force everybody into apartment complexes so they can always be at their master’s beck and call. it’s crazy that you are on the fediverse and yet you want to have your real life situation be exactly as centralized as the platforms you are here to escape.
You have a somewhat weird assumption of what I’m trying to tell you.
I don’t want everyone to live in an apartment. But they are needed for a healthy city. The residential suburbs made of of single family homes that the US is building everywhere are not sustainable. The infrastructure costs far outweigh the tax revenue they’ll every generate. The people living there have to have a car to get around because everything is too far away. This just can’t work in the long run.
That’s plain wrong. My neighbors have no idea about what I do in my apartment. I never let them inside and there is no need to do that. Heck I don’t even know their names Even my landlord was never inside since I rented it.
And why do I need to own it? What advantage is there? I would be stuck to this place as property isn’t that easy to sell.
My parents are trying selling the family house they built themselves for almost 2 years now. They are now too old to maintain it and none of the children wants it. We all have our own lives. That’s the reality for most of the people that own property: You are stuck with it whether you like it or not.
Do you have some kind of delusion?
Those two don’t compare. At all. You’ll always need to have some kind of central ‘power’ to coordinate efforts and resources. Here the instance is the center that’s doing that, much like a city does. And if I don’t like the instance I switch to another one like if I don’t like a city I’ll move.