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Are we paying rent on our body now? Is that an accurate way to describe it?

Ideally (from the farmer's POV) you will utilize every part of the cow. Lips to lungs. Which is to say, rent will be collected on every single facet of existence.

It's like being wrapped in a rent-absorbing membrane. A rent-stomach.

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No, you are paying for your own biological needs. It's no different than having to spend money to buy food. It's not at all accurate to equate these costs to rent.

You trust this business much more than I do. It strains credulity.

This business charges exactly what the market will bear. Not what servicing the "biological need" actually costs them.

But that's obvious.

Same goes for everything else

Except health is something literally everybody wants so much that they can charge literally anything. That's a big difference.

It's like charging for air.

No, it's not. Air is not something that I'm dependant on someone else to provide. Healthcare is dependent on the labor of others, something to which you are not entitled to by default.

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