<story><title>Thirteen Months of Working, Eating, and Sleeping at the Googleplex</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-07-22/thirteen-months-of-working-eating-and-sleeping-at-the-googleplex?utm_content=buffer5e673&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ogreveins</author><text>The rationale behind it makes perfect sense.  Do you really want to give someone $2-3000 per month or $24-36k a year just to have a box around you?  Especially if you don&amp;#x27;t own much stuff?  How much do you actually need besides your computer, phone, clothes and toiletries?  Gym for bathroom and free public wifi for internet aside from your phone and you&amp;#x27;re set.&lt;p&gt;The rental and housing market is disgusting.  I wouldn&amp;#x27;t consider it except for my wife.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zzalpha</author><text>&lt;i&gt;The rationale behind it makes perfect sense. Do you really want to give someone $2-3000 per month or $24-36k a year just to have a box around you?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Really?  You honestly can&amp;#x27;t fathom why some people might desire their own, private space, &lt;i&gt;away&lt;/i&gt; from their work environment, where they might, I dunno, live their life outside of their day-to-day drudgery?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not even sure how to react to that.  It&amp;#x27;s such an alien way of thinking, I simply can&amp;#x27;t relate to it... it&amp;#x27;s baffling.&lt;p&gt;I mean, the minute humans formed fixed communities instead of hunting and gathering, we&amp;#x27;ve been driven by the need to build public and private spaces in which to live.  Questioning that need is questioning one of the founding tenants of modern human society...</text></comment>
<story><title>Thirteen Months of Working, Eating, and Sleeping at the Googleplex</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-07-22/thirteen-months-of-working-eating-and-sleeping-at-the-googleplex?utm_content=buffer5e673&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ogreveins</author><text>The rationale behind it makes perfect sense.  Do you really want to give someone $2-3000 per month or $24-36k a year just to have a box around you?  Especially if you don&amp;#x27;t own much stuff?  How much do you actually need besides your computer, phone, clothes and toiletries?  Gym for bathroom and free public wifi for internet aside from your phone and you&amp;#x27;re set.&lt;p&gt;The rental and housing market is disgusting.  I wouldn&amp;#x27;t consider it except for my wife.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>devindotcom</author><text>Not to judge it, but clearly your lifestyle differs greatly from mine. I value a separate space, privacy, my own books and plants and furniture, a neighborhood that isn&amp;#x27;t a business district or food court.... and a hundred other things that living full-time at a workplace make impossible.&lt;p&gt;These two lifestyles are not merely incompatible but imcompossible. What you describe sounds to me like living like a drone - as in, an actual bee.</text></comment>