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by mrleiter 2749 days ago
It's a socio-economic shift, the growing imbalance of renting vs. owning. It mainly has to do with wealth accruing faster than income grows. Wealth is heritable, it transcends a human lifespan. Income (which partly ends up being wealth) is most often not. This trend has lead to the well known .01% debate and it is in fact, to the society as a whole, unhealthy in the long run.

It's not our ownerless future, it's the highly skewed owning society that rents out its property. It's in a sense a modern feudal system, where the few own a lot and in exchange to utilise those goods, you pay. You cannot afford to buy, although legally you could. You are, if even, able to pay the rent.

There is this narrative of "sharing is caring", which may have some truths to it, but it also plays into the hands of the ones who own.