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ATLAS · A CLAIM AND WHERE IT CAME FROM

The things that used to be bought once are now rented forever

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Why does a steady life take more than it used to?
Why is it harder to get by than it was for our parents?
Why is a secure standard of living harder to reach than a generation ago?

→ What leads to it (4)

Everything is a subscription now, including the car
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A single wage no longer supports a household
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Assets rose faster than wages for four decades
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The cost of the essentials rose faster than the basket used to measure inflation
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→ What it leads to (3)

So nobody trains and everyone complains about skills
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There is no chemist, no bank and no bus after six
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Anyone without them was priced out of ever holding them
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Every room keeps its own record: its map, its rules, and every judged pair with its votes, downloadable from the room. ← The atlas