Why You Don't Actually Own Anything Under Capitalism

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Citations and Further Reading:

Personal vs. private property
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Kindles, Keurigs, John Deere and ownership
https://books.google.com/books?id=1zt...
https://money.cnn.com/2015/02/03/tech...

66% homeownership rate
https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/fi...

Declining homeownership rate
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/economi...

60% of homeowners have a mortgage
https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/mort...

Millennials don’t want to own things/homes
  / why-the-younger-generation-doesnt-want-to-...  
https://www.businessinsider.com/mille...

Poverty and profit under capitalism
   • Fundamentals of Marx: Falling Profit Rates...  
   • Why Capitalism Will Always Fail (Capitalis...  

Trends in income/wealth inequality
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-tr...

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

HBO removes shows
https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/hbo-...

Personal property, rent, capitalism
https://books.google.com/books?id=ZFd...
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https://jpia.princeton.edu/news/somet...
https://jacobin.com/2013/04/we-have-a...

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