In her original post, Auken predicted a time, viz. 2030, wherein she would not ‘own anything’, not a car, a house, nor even any clothes. This was because, she explained, all things previously regarded as a ‘product’ would be supplied and available in the future as a ‘service’. As a result, everything that one might need could be rented, thereby eliminating the need, although not necessarily the right, to ‘own anything’. This was “a good life”, Auken concluded. A future with no individual ownership is not a happy one: Property theory shows why – Futures, Volume 152, 2023 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328723001131
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I will never sell my house to a modern day slum landlord.

I knew this was happening. But I didn’t know it was so bad. The house next-door to me is for sale. It is abandoned now since the owners both passed away and the children are not interested in it. It requires a lot of repairs. I fear that it will be purchased by a large corporation.