Techies are paying $700 a month to rent tiny bed 'pods' in downtown SF
www.sfgate.com
Brownstone is renting out 'pods' for $700 a month in San Francisco's SoMa neighborhood, and techies are taking them.

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  • ViewSonik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    463·
    1 year ago

    The USA is better than this. We should not be forcing people to live in tiny little dorms to work in our tech hubs due to housing costs. Build more apartments, fund it through corporate taxes and actually make San Francisco affordable for our brightest tech workers.

    • 01011@monero.townEnglish
      27·
      1 year ago

      History suggests that the USA really isn’t better than this. If you ignore the post WWII boom period, workers being treated terribly is the norm.

      • ViewSonik@lemmy.worldEnglish
        45·
        1 year ago

        Well, no. Im not going to ignore the last 80 years. Of course progress takes time and future-looking we can still do much better. We have the means, we have the land, we have the know how.

        • 01011@monero.townEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          Workers have been treated progressively worse since the Reagan era. You’re really only talking about a few decades of labor progress in the last century followed by decline.

          • Gsus4@feddit.nlEnglish
            5·
            1 year ago

            And that was only because they had to beat the nazis and afterwards prove that capitalism wasn’t worse for common folk than communism. Once that credible bogeyman was gone, we were left with TINA, so they went back to screwing everyone over.