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People don't want to live in this pods for the most part. The problem is NIMBYs in San Francisco constantly block new housing from being built. This results in insane housing rental prices for workers. Because housing prices are so insane, it makes $700 sleeping pods look like a steal.
The issue is the lack of housing, NIMBYs, and the local government.
A boring dystopia
Those would be fucking coffin homes in China What
Lol this reminds me of the scene in The Complete Al from the 80s where Weird Al travels to Japan and stays in one of their hotels:
https://youtu.be/_Seufp4nvXQ?si=I3QrLETjVvbFA9lL
Edit: skip towards the end if you want to see the specific scene.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Tiny sleeping "pods," which have proved a hit with San Francisco's tech community, are not up to code, city officials said.
Representatives for the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment, made outside normal working hours.
The pods, which are 4-foot-high boxes constructed from wood and steel, made headlines after tech workers praised the spaces in interviews with ABC 7 News.
Brownstone CEO James Stallworth told SFGate the company had a lot of inquiries from people interested in artificial intelligence.
Earlier this month, Christian Lewis, a tech-startup founder, posted photos of his experience in one of the pods on X, formerly known as Twitter.
i'm just trying to stay within the city of San Francisco without paying $4,000 a month or getting stabbed, and i think this is a great solution so far," he wrote.
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