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> But people aren't always smart.

I totally agree. But they will be smart after getting burned by reality. History repeats itself and the next crisis is right at our doorsteps. The desire to own things physically is correlating to the fear in society (just an assumption of mine). Thats why currently (I'd assume we're in a boom right now) some people rather use services instead of buying stuff.

BTW.: I think it would be a super cool task to research ownership-spending vs services-spending correlated to economic-state!




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