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The Hartmann Report

Daily Take: Nothing Is Ours Anymore: Is the "Rental Economy" the Most Destructive Scam in Modern American Capitalism?

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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From 50-year mortgages to paywalled car features, the rental economy is replacing ownership with lifelong monthly bills...

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1:00.7

Nothing is ours anymore.

1:02.8

Is the rental economy the most destructive scam in modern American capitalism?

1:07.8

Yesterday, both Trump and his secretary of housing and urban development told us that 50-year home mortgages may soon be a thing.

1:16.0

While seemingly insane, you could end up paying more than three times the cost of the house and never escape the burden of debt before you die.

1:23.6

This is just the latest iteration of one of American businesses' most profitable scams, the rental economy.

1:32.1

It's a growing threat to the American middle class that rarely gets named, even as it reshapes our lives every day.

1:38.6

Over the past two decades, it snuck in quietly disguised as convenience or efficiency or even innovation. As a result, nothing is

1:47.2

ours anymore. Instead, we're renting our lives away. There was a time when you bought things.

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