Over 45 years ago when I was going to college and working for a really nice nurse at a central hospital in Phoenix, AZ as a computer encoder (keypunching cards....lol), She had a sign behind her desk that stated: "It is better to live in a small well-filled home than a large empty palace". I never forgot that saying and over the years and numerous homes later, I "got it". I now live in a small well-filled home and am quite content.....
We don’t need more space, we need less stuff. It is not how big the house is, it is how happy the home is. However, a “one size fits all” is great for Socks, not always for People :)
Exactly. I am happy with the size house I am in. It's 1100 sq ft. I am not happy with the amount of stuff I have, which is why I am going through the decluttering process.
I have a large off grid tiny house on wheels. 8’x32’. I have full size washer and propane dryer, a full size bath tub, 2 loft bedrooms and a living room with a 52” tv with a reclining love seat directly across (perfect for gaming or movies). Better yet, I built it 100% my self!!!
Tiny homes make great isolation chambers. Cargo containers are just perfect, but still need plumbing, electric and insulation to make them comfortable.
It's not that people WANT smaller houses, it's that people can not afford bigger houses. Flats are becoming smaller and more expensive, as well. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer. And this is not me going "capitalism bad, socialism good", however, we flat owners are slowly making us get used to to smaller living spaces. That is a scam. I mean... you said it yourself. It's about social insecurity. Smaller houses are not popular - they are a necessity.
KYSMO, I can live with your kind of honesty. You nailed it..., "socialist driven, minimalist insanity" is all they are selling here. Bulldoze the United Nations and the White House, all of this goes away.
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She used an example of a tiny house that's extreme and very few tiny-house people choose such a life. Most tiny houses have the same amenities as a traditional house. It's all up to the people designing and building their tiny house. There are as many different types of tiny houses as there different types of people.
I used to live in 30 square meters flat with my husband.... I would never go back to that time. Not enough sunlight, not enough space to invite friends. It is good to have a tiny house only temporary believe me for daily life it is a nightmare, it is like a cage. People need more space than that.
The reason why houses became bigger after WW2 was because USA wanted it's developers to make more money by making them and selling them. Also USA had just discovered a lot of oil on their land and wanted to sell it. But it's not the houses that need to be tiny. It's normal size houses that need to be self-sustained, that's all!
@@OceanAce there are more places like Flint than people know. I actually maintain and test water systems for a couple business in my county, lead is the least of your problems with public wells near population centers over a couple hundred. *I am not saying tap is better. In fact its not.
In Brisbane we have a lot of old wooden homes called Old Queenslanders another name for them is a money pit and if they catch fire they are gone in 5 minutes
AJD OLD CHANNEL ARCHIVE I don’t think she’s telling people what to or even advocating for a tiny house, she even says apartment living is more efficient. I think she’s exploring the mindset of why people do it. I’d more sooner live in an apartment in a large city. If I’m going to give up personal space I at least want to get the social and cultural benefits in return.
@Chris Morfill and AJD OLD CHANNEL ARCHIVE : That's an unfounded biased assumption, at best. You both need to practice critical thinking, because you are so obviously incapable of it at present.
@@aylbdrmadison1051 I've found that in life we have to make assumptions based on experience.This lady is very reminiscent of the architects in the 50s and 60s who advocated for high rise housing for the masses ,which ended up being a disaster for the occupants.Meanwhile virtually every single one of them(with a couple of notable exceptions) lived in large, comfortable houses with gardens.
@@paulantondeubner But modern apartments use tons of concrete which I heard produce lots of CO2. Also we are heading into a sand shortage crisis because of the high demand for modern buildings. I think tiny house villages are a good alternative, because often they use common rooms like kitchens and bathrooms and have generally a more sustainable lifestyle (consume less, eat vegetarian/vegan and organic food). Of course that is also possible in an apartment. But I think one should not underestimate the potential of tiny house villages.
@@PandaDragonfly If you compare a today's outdated concrete poorly insulated huge apartment to an ecofriendly built tiny house there is no way the apartment will win the contest :) But if you have an apartment the size of a tiny house in an ecofriendly building there is no way the tiny house can win :) And the question is not what we have right now, as the people who are asking are environmentally aware, the question is, what will be built in future and what we should push and what not. Another aspect of apartments: You can live densly together in cities with them, so the ways outside of your house will be short and manageable by feet or bike. Also electricity, water etc can be provided nearby and don't need to go long distances with loss and environmental impact.
@Indigo Rodent Sustainability has a social component, yes. But still more densely populated places don't necessarily come along with less live quality, there is enough research about that :) But it is necesssary to create non-monotonous places for sure :) You cannot force people to live in one way or another so it is an architect's task to create liveable spaces.
She lost me at "social capital". If social capital is one of your driving forces in life, a tiny house isn't going to fix you. Putting down your silicon obsession would be a good start.
Even if I happen to get a biigger home, I will remain minimalist btw ,by Indian standards a big home is anything bigger than the one you already have :-)
A tiny house makes me want a bigger house :/ I do not think tiny houses make people want less. They force people to have less because space is a premium. I would agree that having less is the key to being happy but only if it doesn't impact your ability to do things. So most people would be happy to have less and live in smaller accommodation if there were adequate communal alternatives that did not break the bank. I.E: most people would forgo the expenses of owning cars if using taxis did not cost more over all than a car would for the same journey. Or look at Japan where you can actually go to recording booths and rent studio grade musical equipment instead of buying your own instruments and amps and stuff? And for many people owning gym equipment is a pain but they do not have the option to visit a nearby gym as it is too expensive/inconvenient.
A tiny home is like a small car If you have a small car, you only end up getting small things that fit in your small car If you get a big car or truck, then, to justify the big car or truck, you get bigger things than you need because you can get bigger things. And most of those bigger things you didn't really want or need anyway.
For the Gen Z, a tiny house is, by and large, a no-sacrifice proposition. They would rather be out DOING things instead of obsessing over HAVING things. How refreshing and liberating THAT is. Combine that with a few acres of productive land (that would be possible by not having a larger house, btw) and they've got a combo of foundation for Living that matches and/or beats anything Boomers can even dream that they had. Love the concept and the paradigm shift and they'll never left feeling wanting. Thank You, Ms. Byram!
Georgia Guidestones - 500,000 humans in perpetual balance with nature. That is what the richest and most powerful human-beings on the planet want, and it is likely what they will get.
@@blop-a-blop9419 Considering they could literally wipe out the entirety of humanity at the push of a button (engineered virus, bio-chemical attack, crop destroying bacteria/pathogen, flat-out execution of individuals or nuclear war etc...). I wouldn't put any hope into people being able to revolt successfully. The best chance is to hope the people in control of our planet do in fact have our best interests at heart, and will never just eliminate us without giving us a chance to prove our worth by dictating our own lives and enforcing our own survival. Grow your own food, avoid anything artificial or synthetic, stay away from electromagnetic radiation as much as possible, stay in shape physically, mentally, and spiritually, and then you will have nothing to fear.
Boy has she missed the whole point of tiny houses! She made some good points such as "want less", but just because the couple she was talking about chose to go without indoor plumbing and a composting toilet, doesn't mean all tiny houses are like that. Along with reading tiny home blogs she should be watching some of the videos.
@@rodneycaupp5962 Not familiar with that. It's a larger vehicle, I presume. Well, I had the Prius before I made the decision to live out of my car. It works out well. The hybrid system is awesome. I spend about $50 in gas per month. Only require for all expenses about $750 per month. I have been doing this since July 14, 2019, almost a year! I stock away about $1000 per month in my Vanguard mutual funds. Challenges are the portal to higher horizons of consciousness. They evoke your creative wizardry.
@Aquarian American I was more cracking on size. I had a friend who owned a Geo, and they were excellent little cars. In fact so good they discontinued them. Maybe the biggest problem was the owner could make his or her own repairs. All of that Given, I hope your dad is enjoying a Mercedes if he so wishes. LOL, I just saw your Screen name and realized this comment affirms my Aquarian nature and birth right. If we could all be Aquarian there would be more Peace and Love in this world.
@@mikeq5807 Sounds like you speak truth. I'm glad this situation is paying dividends and looking up for you. Hey don't make a deal on the Geo till you've had a look at one. I think the actual living space is around 9 square feet, ...in the model with tilt seats and a tilt steering wheel. lol
"Apartment living is far more efficient than a stand alone tiny house". I disagree. A tiny house has the potential to be far more efficient for 3 reasons. 1) the walls are less load-bearing so they can be built out of more sustainable materials. You can't build a 30 story apartment block out of cob / rammed earth / earth sheltered dirt & old tyres, etc. 2) a tiny house has the potential to disconnect from industrial civilization. Not many apartment blocks have composting toilets or passive solar heating. Apartments all have municipal water, electricity, connected to bitumen roads, tonnes of concrete, etc. 3) Durability. In England there's a timber framed, thatch-roofed cottage built in 1269. A brick & cement high rise apartment may get demolished in 30 - 40 years.
No one sane is building out of old tyres etc because they release TOXIC GAS and flake off environmentally damaging particles. Thatch roofed cottage from 1269.... that's survivor bias. All you see is the one that has survived out of a quarter of a million that once existed.... and which all the materials it is made of has been replaced 20 or 30 times over in those centuries. And still unhealthy to live in... Brick Buildings last longer than you think.... I'm about 10 minutes walk from some brick buildings that have been used for housing since the 1700s (when they were built). Go build yourself your hobbit hole in Montana or Alaska or whatever and sign off from civilization... but don't come back and complain afterwards or expect society that you've written off to support you in a decade when you realize that you can no longer support yourself or feed yourself or even necessarily walk.
@@josephteller9715 tyre construction is combined with earth sheltered houses, as in buried tyres, like earthship houses. See "wiki earthship". The tyres are covered in dirt & sealed off with cob walls so there's no exposure to any off-gassing. Tyres are not a perfect material, just putting to use something that would have gone into landfill. BTY being capable of disconnecting from industrial civilization's support systems is not synonymous with rejecting industrial civilization. Apartments are appropriate in inner city areas, especially when they are about 4 stories high, seems to make beautiful cities. But there's a lot of rapidly industrializing countries that would be better served by small houses that are not completely dependent on centralized systems & have a much lower environmental impact.
Tiny houses were supposed to be for the homeless now their a fashion statement and we we have an epidemic of homelessness and this being a fashion makes it unaffordable for low income and homeless people to afford and homelessness is getting worse
*Playful Comment:* I totally dig braless chicks.. Preach on my sister.. *Serious Comment:* I love your "tiny house" videos! You are the kind of woman I need in my life right now.. if only you were ten-years closer to my youth...
Not if you have to rent or buy land to put it on.... and then theres taxes. If its got wheels its mobile and taxed like a vehicle. If its stationary then there's real estate tax. If you hook up to electricity or water etc then there is debt to the utilities. Never really debt free, that doesn't happen in a capitalistic society.
Yep, 90% of humanity is so brainwashed that they will literally promote the very thing that causes them harm and enslavement if it is promoted to them through slick marketing, propaganda, and the illusion of mass-acceptance.
People living on tiny houses has this quality called CONTENTMENT and thats the quality some of us does not have. Yes our technology might be advancing but our sense of living tends to suffer. Specially some rich people. Just the thought of people craving for power and money makes me sick.
Exactly!! And the control. My grandparents had 8 children and moved from place to place. Then my mother became a teen mom, then 2 years had a set of twins 2 months after Grandma had baby #9. Grandpops “sent down south” (that’s what southern Blacks did when help was needed) & his father sent $ to buy a house for $7K. After retiring, people wanted them to move to senior housing & he said NO - as long as I have this house my kids can make as much noise if they want & nobody evicts them or calls the cops because of it! So keep your apartment where u cant hang photo on the wall & every month your landlord threatens your shelter for the inability to pay - at least it takes 2 years before the mortgage monsters actually foreclose.
Woa... I'm not sure why owning tiny houses become such grandiose movements and talk like this. The answer is simple, if you had tiny house, you are FORCED to re-think again when you wanna purchase things, like where you gonna put this stuff, how you gonna keep it, and for how long because the space is limited. Hence you are FORCED to be mindful on your purchases which leads to cheaper way of live and also less things to care about. The important part is not how tiny your houses are but how to be mindful before you purchase or spend on something.
Your husband is smart... it will turn into a toxic chemical dump over time and leak into the water table and affect what you grow on the farm. People are not clean.
Problem with this tiny homes, in today's environment, there is no security! These homes are, altho a great concept, will not protect you. A good size vehicle could smash into it easily and good bye house and perhaps the residents as well. These homes provide no safety and in an lights out situation, the first to be targeted!
@@andrewerickson6690 Well let me put it this way, a car could crash into my house, but I if I wasn't sitting in that room, would survive, my house wouldn't be totally demolished! But a tiny house, no matter what room your in, you either will die or he seriously harmed and your tiny house, would be no more! Add to the fact your tiny home could easily be hooked up, or pushed to anywhere, by anyone! There is no safety in a tiny house, especially in the world environment today!
What does your house look like Katra Bryam? I bet it's far larger than any of these examples you provide. Easier to dictate others do with less than do so yourself, right?
@Keepskatin : An *assumption* is *not* a fact. Please read more and become linguistically literate. Or at the very least, look up the meaning of words you obviously have no understanding of.
Tiny houses are a deception, they aren't economical as they rarely will be useful for the entire lifetime of the resident, as they rarely are designed to deal with the physical challenges that comes with age. Try living in one if you use a wheelchair or even just use a cane to get around on a daily basis. Even try to bring a wheel chair INTO one. They are disposable houses, just like campers and trailers and so-called mobile homes, as they are not built to last, you use it for 5 or 10 years and then discard it as it will not likely be saleable as few will do the maintenance needed to pass them along and many are designed of materials that will not withstand the elements for more than a decade. But will create some very unfriendly materials to be disposed of that can't be recycled after that decade. So Environmentally unfriendly, handicapped unfriendly and they require their own plot of land to sit on, and don't stack for the most part one on top of another, so space unfriendly in the long term.
@@mariettewheeler1286 how's your legs? How are your hips? Do you really think you're immune to the effects of aging? Really. You're young. You could be on a cane by age 50 or need hip replacement by then. I know this from direct personal experience. Hips wear out. Hip Surgery is expensive. Knees wear out. Even with a Hip replacement I'm not climbing ladders to get into a loft bed or sleeping on a futon on the floor.
Imagine the literature: 'Children, stop fighting and go to your room! .....oh, wait.' or 'Let's have a party for your birthday, darling and invite all your friends ........ oh, wait.' or 'The Haunted Tiny House!', 'The tiny House of Commons', 'The tiny Buckingham Palace', 'The tiny house & garden' magazine. Bollocks!
Tiny homes take land and cause urban spread just as bad as the big houses in the end.... If you can't stack them on top of each other then they still have a footprint. You can't put them too close to each other due to the risk of FIRE since most of them are made of wood.
@@josephteller9715 I agree for the most part but if you took 10 standard lots and built smaller houses on them(with the proper spacing) couldn't you fit an 11th house? Eventually there would be less urban spread. It's not just about having a footprint, it's about people consuming things they don't need to fill there big homes at the same time.
@ I am talking about individual units. I don't want to be tied to someone else's irresponsibility. My friend's condo burnt down because another tenant/owner was throwing cigarette butts off the balcony and it hit a planter on another unit.
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@@iloveyouamberappel Maybe you should be talking about stacking "individual units" on top of each other then Lets be honest, most of these are unsustainable and worse than any typical house anyway. You are all just virtue signaling.
@ Not virtue signalling at all. I want a smaller home, not for climate change or any thing like that, to me, it just makes sense. Don't heat/cool/fill/etc extra space you don't need. Stacking individual units is the same issue. Your neighbours effect your life more than I would like. I don't really want a house built on a trailer but just something that makes sense for 2 people to live in and not have 3 extra rooms.
So it's a step up from homeless? Just make it sound hip and people will eat it up. And what makes me angry is they say it's for the environment. There's is a hundred better ways to help the environment eat less meat, use less gas. You probably don't need to feel bad about it, rich people especially big polluting unregulated companies are the real culprits
I love tiny houses. One for the butler, two for the maids and one for the cook. The grounds keeper gets a cottage near the gate house at the beginning of the driveway. Cargo containers are great. No planning permission for anything up to 25 square metres. However, to be classed as a dwelling, it needs insulation, electric, water and drainage including a bathroom. They are not more sustainable than bigger properties - so long as the bigger properties have appropriate occupation.
Well, you choose what you want and what satisfies you. Why have a house that you don't need. I would rather have millions of dollars while living in a small house, than live in a big house with poverty inside it.
She does not address topics of agency and ownership. She might do well to read the book Evicted. Evicted points out that unlike for many white people, renting does not provide a ladder up to many non-whites and poor. Home ownership especially including land and a well-designed tiny home provides options that didn't exist elsewhere. That is one reason that the idea of landlords building tiny homes to rent out it's the absolute fail. it kills one of the reasons for tiny homes, self agency. And as to tiny houses being no more than a conventional mobile home. Mobile homes were at one time legally allowed to be designed for a 7-year lifespan in many areas before they began to degrade and definitely devalue, putting their owners on an economic downward spiral documented by research. Tiny homes that are built with something other than two by twos and thin insulation are a better investment for the owner. Having said that, even a manufactured home still is a potential personal investment if and only if the land beneath it is owned by the same person who owns the manufactured home. In terms of resource consumption. There's psychological there's ecological and there's sociological sustainability. If we're looking at purely material sustainability the Japanese pods that can be in the area of 32 square foot of space per person or less is truly resource-efficient. Are these apartments at their best efficiency?? On the other hand 2000 and more square foot of space per person even if it's in a New York high-rise efficiency development cannot be considered resource-efficient could it? And what about rural areas?. I live in a semi- Suburban area in a tiny house and I own my own property and I raise a significant amount of my food. This son of former cattle farmers even eats vegan. With the money I saved because I am not paying a landlord I have been able to reinvest in my community even on minimum wage. Try that in the city where you have a landlord who continually raises rates simply because the Investment Group believes your income can match their desire for maximum return on investment. And one other thing I live in a very diverse community and that's the secret to its vitality. I'm not surrounded by other tiny houses I don't actually have relationships with other tiny house owners. But I do interact in my community and I work for the betterment of us all. To say Simply Self expression, belonging and to say Liberation from debt, is a characterture for tiny house owners but it does allow her to make a point we are consuming the planet in a way that will end our existence if we don't change our relationship to it. Opening options for a more fulfilling life that is planetary sustainable doesn't require that we concentrate life into Apartments and focused developments. The planet just doesn't work that way and ultimately neither would we. That's too fragile. We have no further to look than how we have pyramided the meat industry for Pure efficiency and reduced the number of farmers to ridiculously low numbers. Efficiency alone has made farming and supplying people so fragile there are many people in this Land of Plenty about to go hungry. The story of tiny houses it's bigger than a reductionist look
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No! just fkin no! No data mentioned in this talk, its just based some ridiculous expectations... I mean sure not everyone should live in a mansion.. a medium sized house is good enough. beside living in small places can spike ones anxiety a great deal. Useless, and a waste of TED talk.
This reminds me of the idea that if you have less options once you make a decision you’re more likely to be happy with the decision you’ve made.
I think a hammer just met a nail on the head.
Yup. Which is why I don't use Subscription services for content consumption.
Remember that when we hand you a fork and tell you to eat your soup or oatmeal with it. Be happy....
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You hit the nail on the head. Of course this only applies if you choose to downsize.
Over 45 years ago when I was going to college and working for a really nice nurse at a central hospital in Phoenix, AZ as a computer encoder (keypunching cards....lol), She had a sign behind her desk that stated: "It is better to live in a small well-filled home than a large empty palace". I never forgot that saying and over the years and numerous homes later, I "got it". I now live in a small well-filled home and am quite content.....
@Michael Fortier.
That is because you are old, old people don't require much except their prescription drugs, Medicare, food and a tiny home.
@Keepskatin WTF!
@@Keepskatin Just another mind-dead response from our glorious and wonderful youth.
We don’t need more space, we need less stuff. It is not how big the house is, it is how happy the home is. However, a “one size fits all” is great for Socks, not always for People :)
Even for socks, one size does not fit all.
Exactly. I am happy with the size house I am in. It's 1100 sq ft. I am not happy with the amount of stuff I have, which is why I am going through the decluttering process.
Totally agree ☺
@@risariamanx8996 Can confirm. I have sasquatch feet. :(
@@Guru_1092 I have tiny feet
I have a large off grid tiny house on wheels. 8’x32’. I have full size washer and propane dryer, a full size bath tub, 2 loft bedrooms and a living room with a 52” tv with a reclining love seat directly across (perfect for gaming or movies). Better yet, I built it 100% my self!!!
Made sense in 2019. Not so much in 2020
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What?
Probably referring to being stuck inside a tiny house in quarantine.
Lol
Tiny homes make great isolation chambers. Cargo containers are just perfect, but still need plumbing, electric and insulation to make them comfortable.
It's not that people WANT smaller houses, it's that people can not afford bigger houses. Flats are becoming smaller and more expensive, as well. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer. And this is not me going "capitalism bad, socialism good", however, we flat owners are slowly making us get used to to smaller living spaces. That is a scam. I mean... you said it yourself. It's about social insecurity. Smaller houses are not popular - they are a necessity.
If tiny houses were so great the rich and famous would live in them.
KYSMO, I can live with your kind of honesty. You nailed it..., "socialist driven, minimalist insanity" is all they are selling here. Bulldoze the United Nations and the White House, all of this goes away.
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She used an example of a tiny house that's extreme and very few tiny-house people choose such a life. Most tiny houses have the same amenities as a traditional house. It's all up to the people designing and building their tiny house. There are as many different types of tiny houses as there different types of people.
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Thank you for spreading your positive vibes. I wish all the success for you as well. Meet you at the top!
I hope that all your dreams come true
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Successful to means what???????!
I used to live in 30 square meters flat with my husband.... I would never go back to that time. Not enough sunlight, not enough space to invite friends. It is good to have a tiny house only temporary believe me for daily life it is a nightmare, it is like a cage. People need more space than that.
Try going outside once in awhile. Have a barbecue and invite your friends. Don't be so selfish with the world's resources.
Wow she's so good at finding patterns! you can tell she really knows how to use her intuition, thank you for this!
The reason why houses became bigger after WW2 was because USA wanted it's developers to make more money by making them and selling them. Also USA had just discovered a lot of oil on their land and wanted to sell it. But it's not the houses that need to be tiny. It's normal size houses that need to be self-sustained, that's all!
Absolutely loved this! Apart from indoor plumbing, I too chose a tiny apartment living and a More Life ❤️
I love the content that TED Talks provides it's awesome. The content has motivated me to create and develop my own channel.
Ok, it is important to be fair with environment, but living without tap water is a kind of eco-ideology.
Well-water isn't that difficult to live with.
Lol you guys are talking like access to drinking water is a choice.
I would love to have tap water.
@@spacecowboy1438 The U.S. has done a good job on that. Well except for Flint MI.
@@OceanAce there are more places like Flint than people know.
I actually maintain and test water systems for a couple business in my county, lead is the least of your problems with public wells near population centers over a couple hundred.
*I am not saying tap is better. In fact its not.
@@spacecowboy1438 I'm guessing Fluoride or microplastics?
Minimalism.
Minimalism is for people with small amounts of imagination.
@@josephteller9715 I would argue it's the opposite, there's more room for imagination.
Stoicism
@@josephteller9715 As a proponent of minimalism concept in his products lineup, Steve Jobs wouldn't agree.
In Brisbane we have a lot of old wooden homes called Old Queenslanders another name for them is a money pit and if they catch fire they are gone in 5 minutes
Simplicity and connection to nature. As our society is so disconnected from nature and themselves.
It's not for everyone and beware of someone selling salvation and/or utopia.
happy to watch OHIOAN deliver a great presentation! thanks...
At retirement I will be moving into my log cabin at 525 sq feet- not a tiny house, but a perfectly sized house for one person with a part time dog .
I wonder what kind of house Katra lives in? I bet it's not tiny.
Exactly. Easier to tell others what to do than to do it yourself.
AJD OLD CHANNEL ARCHIVE I don’t think she’s telling people what to or even advocating for a tiny house, she even says apartment living is more efficient. I think she’s exploring the mindset of why people do it. I’d more sooner live in an apartment in a large city. If I’m going to give up personal space I at least want to get the social and cultural benefits in return.
@Chris Morfill and AJD OLD CHANNEL ARCHIVE : That's an unfounded biased assumption, at best. You both need to practice critical thinking, because you are so obviously incapable of it at present.
@@aylbdrmadison1051 I can only hope that one day I will be a paragon of virtue like you .
@@aylbdrmadison1051 I've found that in life we have to make assumptions based on experience.This lady is very reminiscent of the architects in the 50s and 60s who advocated for high rise housing for the masses ,which ended up being a disaster for the occupants.Meanwhile virtually every single one of them(with a couple of notable exceptions) lived in large, comfortable houses with gardens.
I don’t want anything, but when I get something it means a lot for me
I would like to know why living in an apartment is more sustainable living than a tiny house.
Efficiency reasons :) First less building materials, then less heating, less maintanence... :)
@@paulantondeubner But modern apartments use tons of concrete which I heard produce lots of CO2. Also we are heading into a sand shortage crisis because of the high demand for modern buildings. I think tiny house villages are a good alternative, because often they use common rooms like kitchens and bathrooms and have generally a more sustainable lifestyle (consume less, eat vegetarian/vegan and organic food). Of course that is also possible in an apartment. But I think one should not underestimate the potential of tiny house villages.
@@PandaDragonfly If you compare a today's outdated concrete poorly insulated huge apartment to an ecofriendly built tiny house there is no way the apartment will win the contest :) But if you have an apartment the size of a tiny house in an ecofriendly building there is no way the tiny house can win :) And the question is not what we have right now, as the people who are asking are environmentally aware, the question is, what will be built in future and what we should push and what not.
Another aspect of apartments: You can live densly together in cities with them, so the ways outside of your house will be short and manageable by feet or bike. Also electricity, water etc can be provided nearby and don't need to go long distances with loss and environmental impact.
It's far easier to control you when your in apartments.
@Indigo Rodent Sustainability has a social component, yes. But still more densely populated places don't necessarily come along with less live quality, there is enough research about that :) But it is necesssary to create non-monotonous places for sure :) You cannot force people to live in one way or another so it is an architect's task to create liveable spaces.
Tiny house do not make people want less. They force people to want less because they have very little space to put more items.
I'm gonna be the Next on Tedxtalk!
nice! remember to present yourself with a different name haha
A tiny house wishes it was a trailer.
She lost me at "social capital". If social capital is one of your driving forces in life, a tiny house isn't going to fix you. Putting down your silicon obsession would be a good start.
Part of something bigger 🙌🏽
The total enslavement of humanity into something that closer resembles battery chicken farming than how human-beings have lived since time-immemorial.
Even if I happen to get a biigger home, I will remain minimalist
btw ,by Indian standards a big home is anything bigger than the one you already have :-)
A tiny house makes me want a bigger house :/
I do not think tiny houses make people want less. They force people to have less because space is a premium. I would agree that having less is the key to being happy but only if it doesn't impact your ability to do things. So most people would be happy to have less and live in smaller accommodation if there were adequate communal alternatives that did not break the bank.
I.E: most people would forgo the expenses of owning cars if using taxis did not cost more over all than a car would for the same journey. Or look at Japan where you can actually go to recording booths and rent studio grade musical equipment instead of buying your own instruments and amps and stuff? And for many people owning gym equipment is a pain but they do not have the option to visit a nearby gym as it is too expensive/inconvenient.
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TEDx Talks☝
It's rare to see a Ted talk by a real, bona fide academic that discusses her study without being sensationalist.
*Bonafide
Best video
A tiny home is like a small car
If you have a small car, you only end up getting small things that fit in your small car
If you get a big car or truck, then, to justify the big car or truck, you get bigger things than you need because you can get bigger things. And most of those bigger things you didn't really want or need anyway.
You sound like you're in a coma....... Here reach down in my pants and shift my little car into overdrive, lets go faster.
For the Gen Z, a tiny house is, by and large, a no-sacrifice proposition. They would rather be out DOING things instead of obsessing over HAVING things. How refreshing and liberating THAT is. Combine that with a few acres of productive land (that would be possible by not having a larger house, btw) and they've got a combo of foundation for Living that matches and/or beats anything Boomers can even dream that they had. Love the concept and the paradigm shift and they'll never left feeling wanting. Thank You, Ms. Byram!
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She won't say it, nobody wants to say it ... :
"Okay, so, realistically, 85% of you have got to go."
Bill Burr
Georgia Guidestones - 500,000 humans in perpetual balance with nature. That is what the richest and most powerful human-beings on the planet want, and it is likely what they will get.
@@AJDOLDCHANNELARCHIVE then they will likely get billions of people revolting too
@@blop-a-blop9419 Considering they could literally wipe out the entirety of humanity at the push of a button (engineered virus, bio-chemical attack, crop destroying bacteria/pathogen, flat-out execution of individuals or nuclear war etc...). I wouldn't put any hope into people being able to revolt successfully. The best chance is to hope the people in control of our planet do in fact have our best interests at heart, and will never just eliminate us without giving us a chance to prove our worth by dictating our own lives and enforcing our own survival.
Grow your own food, avoid anything artificial or synthetic, stay away from electromagnetic radiation as much as possible, stay in shape physically, mentally, and spiritually, and then you will have nothing to fear.
Podiam legendar os teds pra PT, né?
This is a great perspective.
I don't care about the enviro babble, but the minimalist idea has merit. I do need a 3 car garage for the vehicles and the home gym, though.
Boy has she missed the whole point of tiny houses! She made some good points such as "want less", but just because the couple she was talking about chose to go without indoor plumbing and a composting toilet, doesn't mean all tiny houses are like that. Along with reading tiny home blogs she should be watching some of the videos.
True. I live out of my Prius. It makes my life simple.
Go for it mike, but why didn't you buy a Geo.
@@rodneycaupp5962 Not familiar with that. It's a larger vehicle, I presume.
Well, I had the Prius before I made the decision to live out of my car. It works out well. The hybrid system is awesome. I spend about $50 in gas per month. Only require for all expenses about $750 per month. I have been doing this since July 14, 2019, almost a year! I stock away about $1000 per month in my Vanguard mutual funds. Challenges are the portal to higher horizons of consciousness. They evoke your creative wizardry.
@Aquarian American I was more cracking on size. I had a friend who owned a Geo, and they were excellent little cars. In fact so good they discontinued them. Maybe the biggest problem was the owner could make his or her own repairs. All of that Given, I hope your dad is enjoying a Mercedes if he so wishes. LOL, I just saw your Screen name and realized this comment affirms my Aquarian nature and birth right. If we could all be Aquarian there would be more Peace and Love in this world.
@@mikeq5807 Sounds like you speak truth. I'm glad this situation is paying dividends and looking up for you. Hey don't make a deal on the Geo till you've had a look at one. I think the actual living space is around 9 square feet, ...in the model with tilt seats and a tilt steering wheel. lol
@@rodneycaupp5962 Thank you, Rodney! 🙏
I think its about not being materialistic which buddism, minimalism and stoicim also advocate
"Apartment living is far more efficient than a stand alone tiny house". I disagree. A tiny house has the potential to be far more efficient for 3 reasons. 1) the walls are less load-bearing so they can be built out of more sustainable materials. You can't build a 30 story apartment block out of cob / rammed earth / earth sheltered dirt & old tyres, etc. 2) a tiny house has the potential to disconnect from industrial civilization. Not many apartment blocks have composting toilets or passive solar heating. Apartments all have municipal water, electricity, connected to bitumen roads, tonnes of concrete, etc. 3) Durability. In England there's a timber framed, thatch-roofed cottage built in 1269. A brick & cement high rise apartment may get demolished in 30 - 40 years.
LMFingAO. Sustain my laughter Jone.
@Rodney Caupp : Read more and become literate. People will laugh at you less.
No one sane is building out of old tyres etc because they release TOXIC GAS and flake off environmentally damaging particles.
Thatch roofed cottage from 1269.... that's survivor bias. All you see is the one that has survived out of a quarter of a million that once existed.... and which all the materials it is made of has been replaced 20 or 30 times over in those centuries. And still unhealthy to live in...
Brick Buildings last longer than you think.... I'm about 10 minutes walk from some brick buildings that have been used for housing since the 1700s (when they were built).
Go build yourself your hobbit hole in Montana or Alaska or whatever and sign off from civilization... but don't come back and complain afterwards or expect society that you've written off to support you in a decade when you realize that you can no longer support yourself or feed yourself or even necessarily walk.
Easier when your crammed together to control or take out.
@@josephteller9715 tyre construction is combined with earth sheltered houses, as in buried tyres, like earthship houses. See "wiki earthship". The tyres are covered in dirt & sealed off with cob walls so there's no exposure to any off-gassing. Tyres are not a perfect material, just putting to use something that would have gone into landfill.
BTY being capable of disconnecting from industrial civilization's support systems is not synonymous with rejecting industrial civilization. Apartments are appropriate in inner city areas, especially when they are about 4 stories high, seems to make beautiful cities. But there's a lot of rapidly industrializing countries that would be better served by small houses that are not completely dependent on centralized systems & have a much lower environmental impact.
Tiny houses are great. But if you have lots of family it's not great at all unfortunately.
Works great when the kids get their own tiny houses
I live in an apartment I love it just I wish I could put up shelves 😕
You can always buy or build shelving units. ^-^
Aylbdr Madison I have I just like floating shelves like triangle shelves or octagon shelves or floating ladder shelves that go horizontal
What standard of living constitues a beautifull life?
Kind of been happy with little while some have all of it...it works for "some"...
Tiny houses were supposed to be for the homeless now their a fashion statement and we we have an epidemic of homelessness and this being a fashion makes it unaffordable for low income and homeless people to afford and homelessness is getting worse
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Preach on my sister..
*Serious Comment:* I love your "tiny house" videos!
You are the kind of woman I need in my life right now.. if only you were ten-years closer to my youth...
Right!
Small house , Debt free
Not if you have to rent or buy land to put it on.... and then theres taxes. If its got wheels its mobile and taxed like a vehicle. If its stationary then there's real estate tax. If you hook up to electricity or water etc then there is debt to the utilities. Never really debt free, that doesn't happen in a capitalistic society.
They use to call living in a tiny house and having nothing being poor or being a peasant. Now they have convinced the rubes it is trendy.
Yep, 90% of humanity is so brainwashed that they will literally promote the very thing that causes them harm and enslavement if it is promoted to them through slick marketing, propaganda, and the illusion of mass-acceptance.
You guys injected the disinfectant, didn't you? Well at least your bodies survived, even though your brains are now a shambles. :/
What a topic.. really true cost more if bigger house is with us.. much relevant today and forever'...
Little pink houses for you and me. Yeaha!
i wonder where the video is about how people who want less triger rich people to want even more
People living on tiny houses has this quality called CONTENTMENT and thats the quality some of us does not have. Yes our technology might be advancing but our sense of living tends to suffer. Specially some rich people. Just the thought of people craving for power and money makes me sick.
Interesting, how apartments are actually more sustainable... The price though 😬😢
Exactly!! And the control. My grandparents had 8 children and moved from place to place. Then my mother became a teen mom, then 2 years had a set of twins 2 months after Grandma had baby #9. Grandpops “sent down south” (that’s what southern Blacks did when help was needed) & his father sent $ to buy a house for $7K.
After retiring, people wanted them to move to senior housing & he said NO - as long as I have this house my kids can make as much noise if they want & nobody evicts them or calls the cops because of it!
So keep your apartment where u cant hang photo on the wall & every month your landlord threatens your shelter for the inability to pay - at least it takes 2 years before the mortgage monsters actually foreclose.
Apartments = people farms
As long as I have space between my neighbors
Woa... I'm not sure why owning tiny houses become such grandiose movements and talk like this.
The answer is simple, if you had tiny house, you are FORCED to re-think again when you wanna purchase things, like where you gonna put this stuff, how you gonna keep it, and for how long because the space is limited.
Hence you are FORCED to be mindful on your purchases which leads to cheaper way of live and also less things to care about.
The important part is not how tiny your houses are but how to be mindful before you purchase or spend on something.
I would like to create a tiny house community on our farm buy my husband doesn't.
Your husband is smart... it will turn into a toxic chemical dump over time and leak into the water table and affect what you grow on the farm. People are not clean.
Problem with this tiny homes, in today's environment, there is no security! These homes are, altho a great concept, will not protect you.
A good size vehicle could smash into it easily and good bye house and perhaps the residents as well. These homes provide no safety and in an lights out situation, the first to be targeted!
Do you think your home would stop a car?
@@andrewerickson6690 Well let me put it this way, a car could crash into my house, but I if I wasn't sitting in that room, would survive, my house wouldn't be totally demolished! But a tiny house, no matter what room your in, you either will die or he seriously harmed and your tiny house, would be no more! Add to the fact your tiny home could easily be hooked up, or pushed to anywhere, by anyone! There is no safety in a tiny house, especially in the world environment today!
Ok i see what you mean thanks
Actually, build more, bigger.
As with time comes age and more family with their needs to hold them all together.
Nevertheless, good argument.
Tinyhouse 160 sqft $60000 Modest house 2000sqft $60000
What does your house look like Katra Bryam? I bet it's far larger than any of these examples you provide. Easier to dictate others do with less than do so yourself, right?
@AJD. Facts
Did you even watch it??? She wasn't proposing that anyone live in a tiny house...she actually said quite the opposite at the end.
@AJD OLD CHANNEL ARCHIVE : Again, critical thinking. Practice practice practice. You need it badly.
@Keepskatin : An *assumption* is *not* a fact. Please read more and become linguistically literate. Or at the very least, look up the meaning of words you obviously have no understanding of.
I love in a small home and I want a bigger home to put more things in it
Can u tell me?
Why u upload video at mid night?
It's not midnight everywhere! 😉
@@morganrowe I got ur point dude😉
@@morganrowe good answer 😊😊
If was just me and the wife, I wouldn't mind a small house. However, we have a baby on the way....
Tiny houses are a deception, they aren't economical as they rarely will be useful for the entire lifetime of the resident, as they rarely are designed to deal with the physical challenges that comes with age. Try living in one if you use a wheelchair or even just use a cane to get around on a daily basis. Even try to bring a wheel chair INTO one.
They are disposable houses, just like campers and trailers and so-called mobile homes, as they are not built to last, you use it for 5 or 10 years and then discard it as it will not likely be saleable as few will do the maintenance needed to pass them along and many are designed of materials that will not withstand the elements for more than a decade. But will create some very unfriendly materials to be disposed of that can't be recycled after that decade. So Environmentally unfriendly, handicapped unfriendly and they require their own plot of land to sit on, and don't stack for the most part one on top of another, so space unfriendly in the long term.
A little house of 500 square feet a little lake. Sounds so cozy♥️.. as we get older we do not need much.
@@mariettewheeler1286 how's your legs? How are your hips? Do you really think you're immune to the effects of aging?
Really. You're young. You could be on a cane by age 50 or need hip replacement by then. I know this from direct personal experience. Hips wear out. Hip Surgery is expensive. Knees wear out. Even with a Hip replacement I'm not climbing ladders to get into a loft bed or sleeping on a futon on the floor.
"I live in a tiny house" Basically a pretentious way of saying you can't afford a normal size house or apartment.
JasonSmith709 dude some of them cost over a 100000 dollars, so your point doesn’t really stand
Why would I care to "afford" something that I don't want?
How many children are they raising in that tiny house?
The elites want depopulation, so the more methods of controlling population growth the better in their eyes.
Legalize tiny houses in all 50 states!
And make mobile ones easier to claim residency in.
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I'm in!
Imagine the literature: 'Children, stop fighting and go to your room! .....oh, wait.' or 'Let's have a party for your birthday, darling and invite all your friends ........ oh, wait.' or 'The Haunted Tiny House!', 'The tiny House of Commons', 'The tiny Buckingham Palace', 'The tiny house & garden' magazine. Bollocks!
Som Thing 'The Fall Of The Tiny House Of Usher'
Now just get builders to build smaller homes and cities to actually allow tiny homes.
Tiny homes take land and cause urban spread just as bad as the big houses in the end.... If you can't stack them on top of each other then they still have a footprint. You can't put them too close to each other due to the risk of FIRE since most of them are made of wood.
@@josephteller9715 I agree for the most part but if you took 10 standard lots and built smaller houses on them(with the proper spacing) couldn't you fit an 11th house? Eventually there would be less urban spread. It's not just about having a footprint, it's about people consuming things they don't need to fill there big homes at the same time.
@ I am talking about individual units. I don't want to be tied to someone else's irresponsibility. My friend's condo burnt down because another tenant/owner was throwing cigarette butts off the balcony and it hit a planter on another unit.
@@iloveyouamberappel Maybe you should be talking about stacking "individual units" on top of each other then
Lets be honest, most of these are unsustainable and worse than any typical house anyway. You are all just virtue signaling.
@ Not virtue signalling at all. I want a smaller home, not for climate change or any thing like that, to me, it just makes sense. Don't heat/cool/fill/etc extra space you don't need.
Stacking individual units is the same issue. Your neighbours effect your life more than I would like.
I don't really want a house built on a trailer but just something that makes sense for 2 people to live in and not have 3 extra rooms.
now this is a LOAD of pooh
it's like when your girlfriend smiles and says size doesn't matter
So it's a step up from homeless? Just make it sound hip and people will eat it up. And what makes me angry is they say it's for the environment.
There's is a hundred better ways to help the environment eat less meat, use less gas.
You probably don't need to feel bad about it, rich people especially big polluting unregulated companies are the real culprits
The problem is consumerism, US economy heavily dependent on it. I
I love tiny houses. One for the butler, two for the maids and one for the cook. The grounds keeper gets a cottage near the gate house at the beginning of the driveway.
Cargo containers are great. No planning permission for anything up to 25 square metres. However, to be classed as a dwelling, it needs insulation, electric, water and drainage including a bathroom. They are not more sustainable than bigger properties - so long as the bigger properties have appropriate occupation.
"To make people want less" how dystopian.. bet her house isn't tiny.
Well, you choose what you want and what satisfies you. Why have a house that you don't need. I would rather have millions of dollars while living in a small house, than live in a big house with poverty inside it.
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How big is her house? I bet it's over 50x larger than these examples she is trying to push on others.
She does not address topics of agency and ownership. She might do well to read the book Evicted. Evicted points out that unlike for many white people, renting does not provide a ladder up to many non-whites and poor. Home ownership especially including land and a well-designed tiny home provides options that didn't exist elsewhere. That is one reason that the idea of landlords building tiny homes to rent out it's the absolute fail. it kills one of the reasons for tiny homes, self agency. And as to tiny houses being no more than a conventional mobile home. Mobile homes were at one time legally allowed to be designed for a 7-year lifespan in many areas before they began to degrade and definitely devalue, putting their owners on an economic downward spiral documented by research. Tiny homes that are built with something other than two by twos and thin insulation are a better investment for the owner. Having said that, even a manufactured home still is a potential personal investment if and only if the land beneath it is owned by the same person who owns the manufactured home. In terms of resource consumption. There's psychological there's ecological and there's sociological sustainability. If we're looking at purely material sustainability the Japanese pods that can be in the area of 32 square foot of space per person or less is truly resource-efficient. Are these apartments at their best efficiency?? On the other hand 2000 and more square foot of space per person even if it's in a New York high-rise efficiency development cannot be considered resource-efficient could it? And what about rural areas?. I live in a semi- Suburban area in a tiny house and I own my own property and I raise a significant amount of my food. This son of former cattle farmers even eats vegan. With the money I saved because I am not paying a landlord I have been able to reinvest in my community even on minimum wage. Try that in the city where you have a landlord who continually raises rates simply because the Investment Group believes your income can match their desire for maximum return on investment. And one other thing I live in a very diverse community and that's the secret to its vitality. I'm not surrounded by other tiny houses I don't actually have relationships with other tiny house owners. But I do interact in my community and I work for the betterment of us all. To say Simply Self expression, belonging and to say Liberation from debt, is a characterture for tiny house owners but it does allow her to make a point we are consuming the planet in a way that will end our existence if we don't change our relationship to it. Opening options for a more fulfilling life that is planetary sustainable doesn't require that we concentrate life into Apartments and focused developments. The planet just doesn't work that way and ultimately neither would we. That's too fragile. We have no further to look than how we have pyramided the meat industry for Pure efficiency and reduced the number of farmers to ridiculously low numbers. Efficiency alone has made farming and supplying people so fragile there are many people in this Land of Plenty about to go hungry. The story of tiny houses it's bigger than a reductionist look
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we need translation to Arabic
Harry Potter and the privileged white male.
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stay home..stay safe
..we will survive..
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How big is Al Gore’s house?
"But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness."
(1 John 1: 9) NLT
Prayer:
Lord Jesus, I am a broken person, in need of your salvation. I cannot engage the battles of this world, and cannot engage the spiritual battles. I come humbly and in repentance before you, with empty hands. On my knees, I ask you to fight all battles for me. Give me the insight and wisdom to listen, hear and folliw your voice, you speak into my heart. Thank you for having won all my battles. Thank you, Jesus.
Amen.
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You just commented to become the first one 😂.. as shown from your comment.
The "American style life" is unsustainable!
No! just fkin no!
No data mentioned in this talk, its just based some ridiculous expectations...
I mean sure not everyone should live in a mansion.. a medium sized house is good enough.
beside living in small places can spike ones anxiety a great deal.
Useless, and a waste of TED talk.