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[Doc]

To come in late: I really like this furniture because cartoons in the 1980s primed me to approve of things that become other things but in my head these will either be wonky and nowhere near as easy to operate as they seem in the video or so expensive that if I could afford them I could probably afford a bigger house, this might be based on a misconception of how much houses are going for these days, though.

[Arachno-capitalist]

Oh okay, so youre a marxist. You could have just come out and said that, it aint a thing.

[jay-ell]

JL, you don't need a whole tiny house to write in, you just need a shed:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/13/AR2010091304465.html

Yay! Shed! I have one of those!

Unfortunately, it's full of bicycles.

Actually, I want the tiny house as a combination writer's retreat/guest quarters. I might even like to build it on a trailer so that we can take it with us on vacations.

[AugustWest]

Actually, I want the tiny house as a combination writer's retreat/guest quarters.

Tiny house?  This is not awesome.

[theinevitable]

I mean, the stuff Fanta is saying is not retarded, a dude won a not-Nobel prize in economics for his work on that. The problem is not lack of technology, but lack of efficient/"fair" distribution of resources and technology. The year Borlaug's hybrid crops were introduced to India, they were already dumping millions of tons of grain into the ocean because they had so much, but corruption/inefficiency kept it from being distributed. Maybe it's easier to increase production than to end corruption, though (someone will link to this sentence and say "DING DING DING" and ignore everything else in this post.)

Also relevant is this stuff and this professor who inspired me to switch majors.

I don't see how it is controversial to say that new technologies are not inherently beneficial or not-beneficial, and it's all about how we use them. "Guns don't kill people, people kill people."


I am glad that it is cheap for me to live in a big-ish apartment in Saint Louis. When I tell my friends in other towns how much my rent is, they weep.
Normally first they're like "oh, you pay that much each? That is really cheap" and I say "no, we pay that much COMBINED."

[AugustWest]

I mean, the stuff Fanta is saying is not retarded, a dude won a not-Nobel prize in economics for his work on that. The problem is not lack of technology, but lack of efficient/"fair" distribution of resources and technology.

I can't disagree with that, but that's not how I interpreted the Phanta(m).  He can speak for himself, but I took him to say that the technology itself was the problem.

[jay-ell]

Call me old-fashioned, but I always figured that prices increase when demand outstrips supply.

How, then, would decreasing the square footage of an apartment without sacrificing livability (and therefore being able to fit more comfortable apartments in a single building, increasing the supply to approach the level of demand) possibly cause prices to increase?

[Victoria Waterfield]

(someone will link to this sentence and say "DING DING DING" and ignore everything else in this post.)

DING DING DING

[Choop]

DING DING DING

YOU ARE A DELIGHT


AND YOU READ THAT IN MY VOICE


(am i doin that rite)

[Doc]

(am i doin that rite)

You know son, I think you might just be getting it.

[AugustWest]

You know son, I think you might just be getting it.

That's good news!  everyone...

[Nabubrush]

I can only give one of you a can right now, and that would be unfair, so no cans for any of you.