Yeah, Munger Hall was a good design. It's all right, though. I outcompete practically anyone for the homes I care about. They complain on the Internet and I live in the homes they want because they won't let me live in these things.
I go on the Internet and it's people saying stuff like "Everyone worries about rent these days" and I really don't.
In china where legal compliance is more loose, a lot of people live in windowless sub basement rooms (called the ant tribe in Beijing at least). Mold is an issue, so these are even less habital than what you are looking for probably.
I once spent the night in a windowless hotel room in Xi’an. It freaked me out so I moved hotels the next day.
In America, they who could live there live on the street instead. I suppose one could argue which is better. But most seem to prefer the windowless room over the street.
That's true. But note that these dwellings are also illegal in China, just that rule of law in China is not as strong as it is in America.
Anyways, American moral standards prevent us from just giving people window less rooms to live in, it has to be $100k/tiny home that will last only a few years, or something else crazy like that.
It's true. I have noticed this. I think it's because American moral standards conform to the Copenhagen interpretation of ethics. Pareto improvements are insufficient. Interaction implies that some high standard must be met. Therefore, if we give someone something it is insufficient that it is better. It must be good.
Ya, western ethics are a bit harsh. Take the minimum wage, it doesn't just put a bottom on what employers can pay a person, but it puts a bottom on how productive a person must be to get any job at all (lest the job be eliminated as "not worth it"). Similarly so: putting a bottom on housing prevents slums and health hazards, but it deprives some people of housing because they cannot afford this bottom.
On the other hand, it forces people to become better, and most of them do. Social services help and hurt the problem: on the one hand, you won't die quickly if you become addicted to fentanyl, but on the other hand, the lack of immediate harsh consequences can make dipping into drugs appear less risky. On the other hand, in China, where bottoms are non-existent, and social services are very moralistic, if there are any at all, you know doing drugs is pretty much a death sentence. Even becoming a member of the ant tribe won't save you.
I go on the Internet and it's people saying stuff like "Everyone worries about rent these days" and I really don't.