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by ciceryadam 1984 days ago
House size maybe, but that leaves out bunch of other types of living. Not just apartments, but slum huts, refugee camp tents, and so on.
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In houses that size, rooms convert from living -> dining -> study -> bedroom multiple times a day. Most households would have a clear time on when the mat comes out at night or when food is served or when the TV is turned on or off so the kids can study ...etc. At least that's how it was for us.
Subsistence agriculturalists make up 25% of the world's population and many of them (probably all) require more than 500 ft^2.
If the idea of "subsistence agriculturalist" is a US farmer, yes. Others are lucky to have a hut or some such structure.

In the developing world (and heck, in Southern Europe and the Balkans too, as recently as the 60s-70s) farmers used to live, whole family (extended one at that) in ~ 500 sq ft houses... One typical case was that brothers e.g. would often sleep in the same bed for 1 person, one with feet in one direction, the other in the opposite.

> If the idea of "subsistence agriculturalist" is a US farmer, yes. Others are lucky to have a hut or some such structure.

Not lucky, in fact it is the norm for them to have a dwelling. Adobe/mud or some other local construction technique.

> In the developing world (and heck, in Southern Europe and the Balkans too, as recently as the 60s-70s) farmers used to live, whole family (extended one at that) in ~ 500 sq ft houses... One typical case was that brothers e.g. would often sleep in the same bed for 1 person, one with feet in one direction, the other in the opposite.

Thats one example, in parts of Asia they have more room.

yes, even setting up a startup, he was not in a slum hut or a refugee camp.