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Comment by failwhaleshark

Yeap, and other wedge issues including masks, vaccines, vegetarianism, climate change, abortion, and guns. The billionaire, rent-seeking parasite class owns both parties through hedged corruption (campaign "$upport") as Gore Vidal said: "There is only one party, the Property Party, with two wings: Democrat and Republican."

Student debt, credit card debt, wages not keeping up with inflation, automation reducing jobs, lack of universal healthcare (more than M4A), trying to look like a millionaire without savings, razor blade-business model products, increasing costs of living, and less new housing.

It's also interesting that the "sharing economy" encourages greater spending on rentals: Lime, Bird, ZipCar, and so on.

The only consideration pro renting is whether it's a cheaper lifecycle total cost than owning.

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