Re:Japan home to 541,000 young recluses
by Bartweiss on Thursday September 08, 2016 @10:29AM
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Elizabeth Warren of all people has focused on this as a problem in the US also.
The move from single-income to double-income families produced far less than a doubled standard of living, but it drove housing prices sky high. It's an interesting natural experiment for what we might see with UBI programs (which act a lot like adding a 'free' wage-earner to each household).
Re:Japan home to 541,000 young recluses
by aianus on Thursday September 08, 2016 @08:45AM
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If you don't need a job, you don't have to live in the city with everyone else. There's plenty of cheap empty land you could live on.
Re:Japan home to 541,000 young recluses
by jdavis703 on Thursday September 08, 2016 @10:28AM
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There are other reasons to live in a city besides a job. I imagine that as we move toward a "jobless" future cultural and scientific output will increase, and you'll still want to be around the people who are doing the "cool stuff."
Re:Japan home to 541,000 young recluses
by aninhumer on Thursday September 08, 2016 @02:05PM
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But when you're not spending 40+ hours a week working, an hour long journey to do cool stuff isn't as big a deal.
And besides, I think a most of the other people doing cool stuff will want cheaper accommodation as well, and over time particular kinds of cool stuff will congregate in different smaller towns.
Re:Japan home to 541,000 young recluses
by ebalit on Thursday September 08, 2016 @11:31AM
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But you will have the choice. Also, I imagine that a jobless future will be heavily automated. Cheap autonomous transportation might expand the housing area with sustainable commute. Even more so if you can work remotely part-time and shorter hours.
We have seen an element of this in the UK where housing benefit largely ended up in the laps of landlords.