[dragonwriter]

The part where a credit card is involved. It's not directly renting equipment, it's renting money to buy the equipment in anticipation of earning new money to replace the rented money, but it's isomorphic to renting equipment, which is rather the central point to the idea of capital as marketable goods rather than entailed property (or, commonly, an appurtenance to entailed land) which distinguishes capitalism from feudalism.