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Why You Don't Actually Own Anything Under Capitalism – Second Thought
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Citations and Further Reading:

Personal vs. private property
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Krl_CUxW14Y 

Kindles, Keurigs, John Deere and ownership
https://books.google.com/books?id=1ztMDQAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover 
https://money.cnn.com/2015/02/03/technology/freedom-clip-keurig-hack/

66% homeownership rate
https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/files/currenthvspress.pdf 

Declining homeownership rate
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/economic-research/resbull/2022/html/ecb.rb220126~4542d3cea0.en.html#:~:text=Decreasing%20homeownership%20rates&text=Among%20households%20headed%20up%20by,millennials%E2%80%9D%20born%20in%20the%201980s 

60% of homeowners have a mortgage
https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/mortgage-debt-has-peaked-why-has-share-homeowners-mortgage-fallen-13-year-low 

Millennials don’t want to own things/homes
https://timdenning.medium.com/why-the-younger-generation-doesnt-want-to-own-stuff-8db2175b4c6 
https://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-renting-homes-instead-of-buying-2019-7?r=US&IR=T 

Poverty and profit under capitalism
https://youtu.be/EKdQB58g89M 
https://youtu.be/SEGGvVinUao 

Trends in income/wealth inequality
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-in-income-and-wealth-inequality/ 

Minimum wage should be over $20 by now
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/minimum-wage-26-dollars-economy-productivity/  

HBO removes shows
https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/hbo-max-originals-removed-1235344286/ 

Personal property, rent, capitalism
https://books.google.com/books?id=ZFdoBAAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover 
https://youtu.be/8_sdxUukjc0 
https://jpia.princeton.edu/news/something-nothing-how-growing-rent-seeking-heart-americas-economic-troubles 
https://jacobin.com/2013/04/we-have-always-been-rentiers/ 

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