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The hot tub is the land in this metaphor, no-one builds it, someone just put their butt on it first.
> Why bother making a tub, a neighborhood, or a community if it can simply be taken from you.
Something the younger generation has been asking itself for decades, since things are set up so none of us ever gets to "own" a place to live.
> Id rather burn mine to the ground
That explains so much about how the older generation has been acting politically.
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The hot tub is the land in this metaphor, no-one builds it, someone just put their butt on it first.
> Why bother making a tub, a neighborhood, or a community if it can simply be taken from you.
Something the younger generation has been asking itself for decades, since things are set up so none of us ever gets to "own" a place to live.
> Id rather burn mine to the ground
That explains so much about how the older generation has been acting politically.