[hyperluz]

IMHO the advancements in technology related with industries in which the end product is digital (movies, animation, texts, programs, etc.,) instead of fundamental spatial services like automation of food productions, cleaning, garbage collection, house building, etc., is a direct consequence of physical space being a luxury around the world, with housing and renting prices skyrocketing.

The Garage Culture is a privilege of few.

Most working-class people are accepting to live into small boxes without space for even a table destined to drawing, reading and studying. Instead, they soon will use virtual desktops inside cheap Chinese Apple Vision Pros clones. Life will get harder and unhealthier.

While designers and some scientists know the importance of physical areas for developing certain activities, most people don't and are subjecting themselves and their children to sad living conditions.

edit: typo ("de" -> "the")

[habitue]

To be clear, there is plenty of space for humans on earth right now. I'm not talking about in uninhabitable places, I mean in amazing fertile locations. Real world space is a luxury because of bad regulation in places with good governments and other places having bad governments

(you didn't imply otherwise, but I know there's a common misconception that space is running out and the world is overcrowded. It's largely not true)

[Animats]

Those places aren't where the money is. SF can't even get homeless people to move somewhere else.

[AirborneUnicorn]

Is SF expected to have its people without homes moved somewhere else as a solution to this social problem? What a bizarre notion, unless I misunderstand you.

[rvnx]

Where's that amazing place ? O.o

[xboxnolifes]

Even outside of regulations, the biggest issue is access to (well paying) jobs. There may be land available to build affordable estates in tons of areas, but there are no jobs to work there to pay for it.

[AstralStorm]

You would be surprised that someone will come knocking at your door for tax even if you're a hermit or a group of people developing the land.

Land is not free, and that plus buy in is a major obstacle for the moment.

Nomadic living is hated by every state on Earth too.

[bandrami]

I don't know about the rest of the world but most Americans live in significantly larger housing than previous generations did (that's part of why it's so expensive). SROs are basically illegal now, and "starter houses" that used to be 800 sq feet three times that size now.

[hyperluz]

I don't know if there is a concrete source of your claiming.

Even if there is, it's probably restricted to the USA.

At relevant parts of the USA, house sizes are being compressed.

Source: The New York Times

Title: The Great Compression

Date: 02/17/2024

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/17/business/economy/the-grea...

Edit: formating

[bandrami]

That's definitely contrary to the generational trend, which is towards larger and larger houses and apartments:

https://www.ctinsider.com/living/article/column-home-size-am...