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Comment by teh_klev | Hacker News Reader

I honestly can't tell if you're joking or not :/

Would you be happy if you had to pay for a toolshed by law?

Yes, you have to keep your grass short, but why do you need to pay for a toolshed to store your lawn mower when you might just want to hire someone instead and not waste time?

You don't need a kitchen any more than you need a toolshed, and it sucks to be forced to pay for something you don't use, especially when every inch costs you.

What a silly comparison. A toolshed and a kitchen are not equivalent. Replace kitchen with bathroom and you'll see the silliness.

Replace kitchen with what?

A bathroom.

Imagine having a kitchen and a pay toilet.

Some people have unique situations and do not need the use of a kitchen at all. My diet consists entirely of bottled Soylent and protein bars. I never need to cook or utilize any other functions provided by a kitchen.

I reckon the number of folks who claim never to have any need of a kitchen is probably a statistical rounding error, well maybe only slightly more if SF.

But good luck trying to flog your flat or house to the next potential owner when you decided to rip out the worktops, hob etc to re-purpose the kitchen for some other non-food activity.

I thought I'd heard it all regarding peculiar habitation behaviours until this sub-thread.

If it's going to be so hard to flog anyways then why does government feel the need to mandate kitchens? Sounds like the free market should take care of it.

I like to cook, and so does my SO. Even if that weren't the case, we have friends over regularly.

I don't think I'd be ok with inviting over guests and shoving bottles of soylent in front of them as a "meal".

Is this how libertarians actually think?

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