which law of physics says that you pay a landlord rent or else the cops come and beat you up?

Breathtaking that you view trillionaires and casino capitalism as a state of nature.

I imagine you imagine our primitive ancestors in the canopy, glancing at their iPhones to see how their property value is doing.

But the truth is, we didn't even have this level of thoroughgoing, casual precarity as recently as fifty years ago.

Or even twenty.

There was a time, even in my memory, where rents were tolerable and housing within reach.