, full (or accelerated) equity ownership, transportability (local conditions can change adversely over time), extremely efficient use of resources (when did mindless wastefulness become normalized in the US), real innovation in affordable architecture (not green McMansions), the beginning of
the end wage slavery, reduced impact on the environment thru smaller human lifestyle footprint, and a great antidote to a predatory lending system that is beyond accountability.
@Readin, On consideration,
slavery is still on the political spectrum, albeit on a different axis of theft (of human resources), where the extreme would be
slavery on one
end, moving over to various forms of cruel peonage, then to sweatshops, then to low pay dead
end jobs with
wage theft, the same without
wage theft, the same with benefits, and so on up, the opposite side being no theft at all so that a given laborer is paid their fair share.