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The new capitalism is only mildly interested in trailers or mobile homes, which are simply weather-boxed platforms on which are mounted livingry devices, e.g., beautyrest mattresses, shower baths, washing machines, television, radio, air conditioning, lighting, cooking, refrigerating, bottled gas, tableware, toiletries, wardrobes, and so forth.
The mobile homes take the shape of a shoe box because they have to go through the highway or railway bridges. They’re limited to 4-1/3 meters high by 2½ meters wide, but may be as long as highway cornering will permit. The mobile homes are circumstantially ‘extruded’ through bridge openings and their interior living is reduced to narrow space shape. It is like living in a railroad car.
Such mobile homes provide a space to live near jobs without having to buy a fixed home or a fixed piece of land. Mobile homes can be purchased on time payment or chattel mortgage terms. Because they are assemblies of mass production items, their costs are low–but no where nearly as low as they could be, if uncompromisingly designed for rental and not for sale. If the telephone company sold their telephones
