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by dwrensha 3564 days ago
"There’s no such thing as a free lunch, and in this case Point’s lunch comes in the form of capital appreciation..."

I am fascinated by the rhetorical device being deployed here. In the beginning of the sentence, the "lunch" is the money that you save through lower mortgage payments. By the end, the "lunch" is Point's profits, and the tidy transition suggests that everyone wins.