Re:No, You can't retire rich at 30 if you sell your startup
by fragmede on Monday August 23, 2010 @06:27PM
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Any city that's learned to grow vertically would disagree with you. If you thought real-estate was expensive in New York now....
Re:No, You can't retire rich at 30 if you sell your startup
by Unseelie on Tuesday August 24, 2010 @11:52AM
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NYC is expensive because its more expensive to build skyscrapers than houses. Its not cheaper because of mass production, there's just enough incentive to spend more money than it takes to build houses because of the local population density.
Biking through Oakland the other night, I saw a guy pushing a shopping cart with one hand and talking on his cellphone with the other.
A good deal of your lifestyles of the no-longer-needed description might true except ... the 4000 sq ft house.
For the now-permanently-unemployed, it would be a 40 sq ft "home" or perhaps a car or suped-up shopping cart. But still with lots of gadgets.
Space (at the least) isn't going to be made cheaper by mass production even if everything else will.