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Paying monthly so the depreciation becomes someone else's emotional problem.
means An arrangement where you pay for temporary use of something — a car, an apartment, a tuxedo — without ever owning it.
from From 'rent,' tracing back through Old French 'rente' to Latin 'reddita,' meaning 'paid back' or 'returned' — itself from 'reddere,' to give back. The word has always carried that quiet sense of money handed over on a recurring loop, nothing permanently changing hands except the cash.
- origin
- from Old French rente, meaning income or profit
- economics
- you buy flexibility, landlord buys equity
- psychology
- nobody washes a rental car before returning it
- truth
- you own nothing but owe everything on time