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dikran Tulaine's avatar

Well yes. Wealth is the singular value, everybody says our generational wealth is in your property. So even more than ever, and elsewhere, the “average Joe” aspires to landlordism. We have writ, (I live here, it might be the same in Beijing) that wealth is fulfillment. If this is actually a human truth, I think it isn’t, but this distortion of nature rules us.

Property is blatant but it is everywhere else. And it cannot last. The US is committed to inequality, from top to bottom. Using banal terms like competition is advertising. The western realized self is their portfolio. People do not suspect landlords because they wanna be one.

Carl Cimini's avatar

As if serfdom wasn’t bad enough with work for healthcare and shackling one to the corporate teet with no hope or free will to escape you now get to join my grandfather in a coal mine company town house paying your boss for housing, family farms were the first as the oligarchs took the food supply, these are all human rights violations.

Evan Stafford's avatar

Great short piece! We're expected to believe the same thing every couple years about elections. All we need do is vote and somehow it doesn't matter that every politician on both sides is getting bought off by the same oligarchs. The Lever's reporting has helped to make this clear since its inception, and I'm proud to say I've been a supporter through most of it. Keep doing what you're doing and GO Nuggets!