“you still have your house after you’ve paid it off” until you retire and they tax you out of it, happening to my parents right now, sucks, tax bill is over 600/mo and rising! I’m going to have to start paying it eventually so we don’t lose the place. Seems fucked up to work your whole life to own something and then the state just takes it back by inflation and tax hikes eventually screwing you.

Inflation is a long con, eventually if you don’t keep increasing your profits you can’t sustain, that’s why I think a lot of disdain for capitalism is misguided, it’s the monetary system that has created this race to the bottom mentality where you have to keep squeezing to get more profitable just to stay in the game (or decreasing the size of the candy bar to keep the same price).