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Re:The Millennial Commune by morgante on Sunday August 02, 2015 @05:11PM (#9992493)
Calling these spaces communes is ironic considering how incredibly capitalist they are.

1. Regulatory failure leads to a lack of reasonable real estate options in growing cities.

2. Striving young people want to move to the major cities for career reasons anyways.

3. Aspiring capitalists deploy capital to convert existing housing stock into microunits while charging a premium.

Nothing in this is communist at all.

Re:The Millennial Commune by seiji on Sunday August 02, 2015 @05:52PM (#9992633)
It's almost as if they've rebranded feudalism as "sharing."

Proper sharing would be a fully connected graph topology. Modern "sharing" is hub-and-spoke where the hub extracts rent on all transactions because they either made a website (lol, "tech company") or have absconded capital and sell it back to you (time limited) at a profit.

Re:The Millennial Commune by tdaltonc on Sunday August 02, 2015 @06:23PM (#9992725)
This seems like a comment for a post about Uber. I don't see how it's relevant here.
Re:The Millennial Commune by seiji on Sunday August 02, 2015 @06:39PM (#9992772)
Oh, the article itself is about people buying a single resource the sub-renting it out. So that's the feudalism part.

The connected network part was also similar because you have to go through these co-living space capitalist-hippy administrators to actually live in the co-living space. So some of the co-living spaces are co-living as defined by "you passed our landlord's test" but others are "everybody must like you to live here."

If this was relating to Uber, we'd also mention they are doing the entire "break local laws and hope city hall doesn't care" trick by introducing oversubscribed short term housing which is against city policy.

Re:The Millennial Commune by jsprogrammer on Sunday August 02, 2015 @08:10PM (#9993062)
The houselord is merely being compensated for the value created through its curation.
Re:The Millennial Commune by WalterSear on Sunday August 02, 2015 @06:43PM (#9992788)
A commune Ayn Rand could love.
Re:The Millennial Commune by obrero on Sunday August 02, 2015 @06:48PM (#9992806)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand#Atlas_Shrugged_and_Ob...

In 1951 Rand moved from Los Angeles to New York City, where she gathered a group of these admirers around her. This group (jokingly designated "The Collective") included future Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan.

Re:The Millennial Commune by pyb on Sunday August 02, 2015 @05:58PM (#9992647)
Great points, you hit the nail on the head.
Re:The Millennial Commune by notNow on Sunday August 02, 2015 @05:24PM (#9992530)
I agree totally. Another instance of opportunistic capitalism bastardizing a very pleasant concept and lifestyle like communalism and turning into unrecognizable monster of itself.

Shame that these people didn't go "organic" and searched for the real deal in living in a real commune and not that synthetic one.