How does this kind of writing still make it to publication? This isn't about generational shifts, changing aesthetics, or trends in home layout. This is about falling wages, soaring costs of living in urban areas, and a decrease in QoL for the purportedly-mobile section of the working class that is the implicit subject of this article.
Portraying this as being a decision of taste rather than necessity is misleading. Very few people are willingly choosing to have less rooms in their house; our grand paring-down is the result of tight belts and empty wallets, not a nod to minimalist aesthetics.
Portraying this as being a decision of taste rather than necessity is misleading. Very few people are willingly choosing to have less rooms in their house; our grand paring-down is the result of tight belts and empty wallets, not a nod to minimalist aesthetics.