If the richest man - Elon Musk- could live in a house for $50,000 then
this trend may bring complete change to our mentality,
No longer home = palace/ castle
but simply place to sleep and work.
observer.com/2021/06/elon-musk-new-home-inside-view-boca-chica-spacex/
This trend may post positive signal to younger generation of people that could not afford or waste whole life just to pay a mortgage? 
www.boxabl.com/
BTW . Elon house is based on standard 20ft container , but in same category of container standards is 40ft container.
Modular home manufactured on automated production line and brought to your place could be then dimension 12 x 12 meters = 144m2 !!
We spend 90 percent of our time in the kitchen / dining/sitting room (one big room).
id say in Australia (definitely WA) attaching a big useable outdoor area with one of these boxes makes a whole lot of sense. I wonder if local councils allow such a build ?
houses depreciate anyhow. It's the land value that counts.
he probably works 19 hour days and sleeps there and eats out etc.
but would have the coin to go and stay wherever he wants on a superyacht or flash hotel anywhere when not at home so let's not use that as a valid example. Also he's nuttier than my turd after a snickers. populating mars. tard
Quacko-Macro, you're usually the far future visionary, but I find your vision lacking on this one.
The future of 'home' is space saving non-ownership.
I do approve your enthusiasm for downsizing, so, time to move off the farm and move into your new home.
Pick a suitable model, no need to pay for it, your 20 hour work day will have you assigned a 'home'.
Think of the benefits!
Space saving
Easily seal-able to keep you in when you're infected with covid, with bonus fumigation for viruses and sickness.
and when you are no longer of use, poisonous gas can be pumped in to dispose of you ready for next worker tenant.
Select to expand quotekiterboy said..
Quacko-Macro, you're usually the far future visionary, but I find your vision lacking on this one.
The future of 'home' is space saving non-ownership.
I do approve your enthusiasm for downsizing, so, time to move off the farm and move into your new home.
Pick a suitable model, no need to pay for it, your 20 hour work day will have you assigned a 'home'.
Think of the benefits!
Space saving
Easily seal-able to keep you in when you're infected with covid, with bonus fumigation for viruses and sickness.
and when you are no longer of use, poisonous gas can be pumped in to dispose of you ready for next worker tenant.
Man that's scary .reminds me of that Bruce Willis movie the fifth sense. But hey are probable distant future in some regards.
Regarding macros' post I think it's the idea of cheaper builds that work is the key message not what Elon is doing per say. Yeh he's a nut all right but most visionaries have been throughout history.
Select to expand quotekiterboy said..
The future of 'home' is space saving non-ownership.
Someone has to own the capsule hotel 
Select to expand quoteeppo said..
Man that's scary .reminds me of that Bruce Willis movie the fifth sense. But hey are probable distant future in some regards.
Regarding macros' post I think it's the idea of cheaper builds that work is the key message not what Elon is doing per say. Yeh he's a nut all right but most visionaries have been throughout history.
He has as many good visions as he does absolute fever dreams though. Although I could be off either way in that approximation...
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A bloke worth more than $150 Billion doesn't live in a $50k container !
I think that Elon may have some serious shares/money invested into container houses factory, like bit and doge coins,need some advertising now to pump before IPO's
House prices in Boca chica jumped 3x in one year!
after solar root the time to come for complete houses
Select to expand quotekiterboy said..
Quacko-Macro, you're usually the far future visionary, but I find your vision lacking on this one.
The future of 'home' is space saving non-ownership.
I do approve your enthusiasm for downsizing, so, time to move off the farm and move into your new home.
Pick a suitable model, no need to pay for it, your 20 hour work day will have you assigned a 'home'.
Think of the benefits!
Space saving
Easily seal-able to keep you in when you're infected with covid, with bonus fumigation for viruses and sickness.
and when you are no longer of use, poisonous gas can be pumped in to dispose of you ready for next worker tenant.
if you add only small gadget to every cubique they you may life your dream .
At the press of the botton you coud like in palace, Hawai beach, Manhatan skysceaper, in the wood or beach front.For mere$50 investment plus monthly subscription to the latest most fashionable places...
Select to expand quoteMacroscien said..
For mere $ 5 even you could be homeless living under the bridge and have the same experience as a king or billioneres
Very Snow Crash, but the reality is people are built to live in a box on top of each other.
Never happen in Oz, Not en masse anyway. For the same reasons Australia will never get off hydrocarbons (until it's too late).
There's too much of the economy leaning on the housing industry and it's jobs.
(actually in hydrocarbon industry "jobs" is spin, but you know what i mean).
But yeah i live in the tropics, and something like this with a massive veranda would work well, but only on a twenty acre block where you can't hear all of the neighbours air conditioners humming...
