[stormqloud]

It's classic divide and conquer strategy. The peasants are too distracted fighting about idiocy like whether a drug is republican or democrat. Meanwhile the billionaire's are carving up our assets to distribute to themselves.

Own nothing (rent it from us) and be happy with your new life as a serf.

[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.

[stormqloud]

If I had not bought a house, I would have no savings. Yay inflation. Jobs don't pay enough and social security won't be there when you need it.

Anyone that is thinking of depending of govt for your long term financial stability, should consider if the most important vulnerable years in their lives, should depend on random govt employees and funds invested in politicians friends scams.

[stormqloud]

In politics most companies hedge their bets. They give equally to both political parties.

It doesn't matter who wins the elections, they have a guaranteed inside track.

It's just theater.