Back when you could get a a finely built home for a few shit coppers.
A few shekels at most
well, that’s what you get for selling shit copper
Yeah, being an piece of shit also paid off 4000 years ago.
bruh liked to talk a lot of shit on ol Ea, but mfr was in a 110 sqm apartment while y’all packing grannies in a 50 sqm flat.
Remarkable how the typical home hasn’t actually grown all that much over the years.
The size of the human animal has not varied much.
People really haven’t changed.
More space isn’t necessarily a better thing, there are very real diminishing returns after a certain point. Plus, living space is both an asset and a liability - you have to pay to keep the space warm or cool depending on your local climate, and you also have to clean the space.
But note that the typical home has more space per person now.
70m² is a lot more for the modern family structure of two adults, 1-4 kids, and maybe a pet than it is for the traditional family of the old days where there’d be the man of the house, his wife or possibly multiple wifes, their kids (note that they would have way more kids than nowadays because of the lack of contraception and very high infant mortality that led to having to make a lot of kids since only about half of them would make it to adulthood), maybe kids from previous marriages, miscellanous relatives and possibly their families, servants (for example, IIRC in ancient Athens the average family had 4 slaves or so), and domestic animals, as it was common for urban dwellers to still have some animals like a few chickens and a goat or something, and pets of course.
That’s almost 1,200 sqft
