Crashrat posted:

I have no idea how anyone could stand living in a "pod"style hostel, or living in a living-room shed, for any kind of extended period. I really don't understand how it's associated with living a "less tied down lifestyle," and I especially don't understand how it automatically translates to enabling people to be able to have the time and connections to "work on their startup."

Forget the loving buzzwords.

This is basically people living in living conditions below that of an average dorm room at a state university.. At least in a dorm you'll have only 1-2 roommates, an actual desk, storage space, and access to a space within a short distance that's guaranteed to be at least passably quiet (study rooms). But this is even worse because at $900 per month for that "pod" housing in Los Angeles you're paying more for housing than students would at the cheapest housing option at UCLA where you'd get a bedroom in an apartment to yourself.

I mean I realize that housing at UCLA isn't available for everyone, but I'm just providing some perspective on this bullshit. We're effectively pushing people into the economy, giving them poo poo pay, giving them worse housing situations than the "freshman experience" dorms that most people view in America as some kind of right of passage that's looked back on as a bad experience but you're better off for it, and then browbeaten about how dare they not bootstrap themselves into being middle class.