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How would this effect the cost of housing? Would most people even own or rent a house if they didn't need to sleep? Do we all individually own and rent for the primary reason that we need a safe place to sleep?
Is the only thing you use your house for is sleeping?
I don't know about the OP but there's been times when I've used my home more for a place to have sex than sleep. If no one had a home, they'd be having sex out and about... no one wants that.
How would this effect the cost of housing? Would most people even own or rent a house if they didn't need to sleep? Do we all individually own and rent for the primary reason that we need a safe place to sleep?
The presumption behind your question is that because one wouldn't need 'sleep' one wouldn't need shelter. It would simply mean housing choices would be significantly smaller as the space dedicated to sleeping quarters would be eliminated as well as clothing conventionally referred to as 'sleep wear' by a significant amount.
Do you also presume that individuals wouldn't want a private domicile or 'nest'? As another commentor mentioned private quarters are much preferred by most of general population for sexual recreation (except for a few exhibitionists).
How would this effect the cost of housing? Would most people even own or rent a house if they didn't need to sleep? Do we all individually own and rent for the primary reason that we need a safe place to sleep?
I couldn't imagine a 2 month old never sleeping, sounds like a nightmare.
Houses would be much smaller to non exsistant. Like the example I gave above, it would get annoying having to hold or push around a 2 month old for 24/7. Sleep gives moms and dads breaks from the baby! lol
As an individual, never having to sleep sounds like a dream. I could actually spend time on what I want to learn instead rushing it like everyone wants.
The Industrial Revolution has been replaced by the Economic Revolution, which has a whole different dynamic.
To wit: The objective of the Industrial R3evolution was to produce constant output with less work, thanks to the miracle of the machine. The objective of the Economic Revolution is to produce more output with constant work. The operative word there is Constant Work, and if there are more hours of work that can be squeezed out of the Human Resources (that's what Humans are, like coal deposits and timber), then it will be.
It is outdated thinking, that human life has anything to gain by people being awake but not utilized enhancing the economy. There is no place in the paradigm for thinking like that, and there can only be harmful effects from letting people have the leisure to ponder something other than where they will get the money to pay Aarons for the rental of their wall-mounted TV.
In "1984", Orwell's Big Brother appeared on living room screens, with no on-off switch to mute his pronouncements of conventional wisdom. And in Plantation America, slaves could not walk away. Neither is now necessary. People decline to use the switch to turn off Big Brother, and slaves decline to walk away from the workplace.
Houses are to store your stuff in, watch TV, cook (or are these non sleepers not going to eat, either?).
You house is to have a place to have some privacy. No one can tolerate being bumped and shoved by the masses on the sidewalk 24 hours every day. Sometimes you just don't want to relate at the moment.
It's a place to work on hobbies and a safe yard for the dog and the kids. It's a place to entertain your friends without everyone else around you watching or commenting on your cooking. It's a place to get out of the weather. It's not fun standing under a tree in the park during a blizzard.
I don't even think houses would get smaller. The bed does not take up all that many square feet of the building.
I think, even if I didn't need to sleep, I would still want a bed. Where else would I read books most comfortably?
I imagine though, if sleep were not necessary, employers would soon demand that employees work 90 hour weeks with no overtime and the 18 hour work day would be the new standard. Maybe I am paranoid but it seems to me that individuals would end up not owning much of that extra time.
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