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Quote from: xhomerx10 on Today at 04:42:57 AM

How can it be considered wiser to rent from an individual owner as opposed to 'renting' from the bank - you'd be obliged to either one and both could theoretically kick you out for non-payment.

How about, um, owning your own home? As in: Free and clear.

What a nice society you have: The “American dream” of home ownership is truly dead, out of reach and unthinkable to the overwhelming majority of Americans. It has been replaced by an illusion based on a false dichotomy between renting from the bank via an intermediary “landlord” who rents from a bank, and renting directly from the bank.

The banks own everything! You are so immersed in debt culture based on debt-“backed” money and total submission to the banks, you cannot even see what is wrong with your proposition.

Bitcoin, and home ownership: Be your own bank. Be the king of your castle.

Quote from: Lauda on October 19, 2020, 05:29:24 AM

"The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks"
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Don’t get me started on the rents known as “property taxes”. Are you even aware of how recent a development that is in the United States?

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Quote from: nullius on November 07, 2020, 05:31:01 AM

Historically, besides heritable class status, the single most effective guarantor of voter quality was a real property ownership requirement. [...]

Naturally, I think that such a requirement must logically exclude mortgaged properties, which (especially in today’s society) are effectively rented from the bank.

Nearly everyone in this world would love to own their home 'free and clear'! I'm not sure of your intended audience in this thread but I'm sure that your preaching to a choir of Bitcoin hodlers is a pointless exercise; I imagine none of us will have been enlightened.

The 'American Dream' has little or nothing to do with simple home ownership. Did you purposely reduce it to such an inane concept or was that comically unintentional? In fact, the 'American Dream' has little or nothing to do with material prosperity. The American Dream (at the very least) is that anyone, regardless of their present status in life, can realize their aspirations with hard work, passion and dedication; even if you think the system is rigged in favour of others, with the right attitude and dedication, that indignation alone might be all that's needed to spur you to success.
Don't go all Nietzsche on my ass; I did not mention "pursuit of happiness".

Quote from: nullius on November 17, 2020, 03:13:43 PM

Americans stereotypically have a total lack of perspective which is both tragic, and unintentionally comical.

Should we still rejoice when Bitcoin's valuation improves as compared to the same American Dollar used by those totally, stereotypically-perspective-lacking fucks?

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