Oddbean

For instance, The apartment we are moving into has 130 m² for 4 people. That gives each adult a comfortable 32,5 m²/person, with only one kitchen, living room, laundry room, and bathroom, for everyone to share. That used to be considered spacious. This now would be considered a home for two or three people, so we would need 190 m² and twice the number of amenities, to house the same number of people, in order to meet the national living standard of 47,4 m²/person, and a bathroom for every 2 people.

Truth, but this trend is enforced by regulations. Here, at least, those in power just keep expanding the minimum everything required for permitting, as an alternative to doing anything to slow the fall in living standards (on the Left), and as a method to squeeze supply and jack prices further (on the Right). I remember, many years ago, visiting a Korean friend in her tiny city apartment (that she LOVED - walk to work), and then going to a Party meeting - about how they were going to make such apartments illegal because human rights. Not, you know, building a supply of capacious apartments that doctor's wives and retired bureaucrats would see as acceptable. No, modern Left doesn't do things like that!. Just using State power to forbid builders from constructing the kind of homes that many working people want and could afford.