>sixteen people contribute €100 each;
yeah sure everyone has 100€ to spend on friends, at least once a month.
What kind of reality does he live in ?
yeah sure everyone has 100€ to spend on friends, at least once a month.
What kind of reality does he live in ?
1. You have ~15 friends and you all have houses.
2. All of you can confidently allocate €1600 this year towards one major component of the upgrade, and believe you will benefit from it in the next ~15 years.
3. All the friends make enough money that they're confident anything going wrong with €1600 loans/debts won't cause pain or problems in the friendship.
How rich do you need to be for the mentality of that last one? AFAICT that's ~3% of yearly salary (pre-tax) in Germany.
Personally, I do not want my friend group to be tangled up in a financing scheme, and if I wanted a financing scheme I wouldn't do something half-assed that could explode into acrimony if anyone chooses (or is forced by circumstance) to exit having contributed without receiving or vice-versa.
I could understand friends having good-years helping out ones having bad-years ("banqueting" [0]) but what's being proposed really doesn't map to that.
[0] https://acoup.blog/2020/07/24/collections-bread-how-did-they...
It might not actually be "buy one-another new cars" territory, it's closer to that than paying for your friend's coffee or buying an appetizer for the whole table.
You would certainly need the owner's permission, and investing in the kind of adaptations needed might not be something most renters are interested in when it's not their own place. A battery has to be integrated into the whole electrical feed, and a responsible owner might insist that this is a permanent installation and something you can just take with you when you leave. Or if you do, undoing the install will be similarly costly. And who knows if your next place will allow you to install a battery as well.
I don't think you can realistically install it in an apartment, due to fire regulations, and it needs a lot of space. Personally, I live in a 74 m2 apartment, and there's simply no room anywhere. Wiring is another matter; electricity comes through shared risers I don't control.
Now, you could use the battery as a pass through power source, but then you'd have to change all the wiring in your home.
Maybe the author is privileged and it's fine, it's not because you personally can't afford any gift that the author is disconnected, he might not just be talking to everyone on earth.