Become Somebody’s Problem

Borrow

Cannot Be Owned

Change Ownership

Create Commitment

Create Dependence

Drain An Account

Feel Like A Trap

Keep You Up At Night

Need A Signature

Outlive Excitement

Reduce Optionality

Spend The Future

Start With A Deposit

Transfer Responsibility

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pick-up line

30-year mortgage

millennial

loan company

bank robbery

trivia

racism

WWII

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inflation

rent

millenial

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hacker

student debt

electricity

Christmas decorations

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America

class warfare

taxes

is the financing of homes to provide a little security for a family and a lot of security for the bank that holds the mortgage.

Homes are built to provide a little security for a family , and a lot of security for the bank that holds the mortgage.

is a thing which, by the time a family pays it off for a home in the suburbs, the home isn't home, and the suburbs aren't suburbs.

By the time a family pays off the mortgage for a home in the suburbs, the home isn't home, and the suburbs aren't suburbs.

is how banks enlist would-be property owners as indentured servants for a period of twenty to thirty years or until death, whichever comes first .

How banks enlist would-be property owners as indentured servants for a period of twenty to thirty years or until death, whichever comes first .

is from French 'mort', death, and English 'gag', to choke. A lawyer's invention for choking property to death.

is paid off over a lifetime, and once you finally own it, there's no one to live in it.

Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it, and there's no one to live in it . ..,...

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