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by chordalkeyboard 1992 days ago
Subsistence agriculturalists make up 25% of the world's population and many of them (probably all) require more than 500 ft^2.
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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.